Rose Aguilar
Host, Your CallRose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.
Rose has written for Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, Truthout, The Nation, and AlterNet. In 2014, Flyaway Productions turned her Nation cover story about older homeless women into a dance performance.
She's a member of the Native American Journalists Association and mentor-editor for The OpEd Project, an organization that works to increase the range of voices we hear in the media.
In 2005, Rose took a six-month road trip through the so-called red states to learn about why people vote the way they do (or not). She wrote about her journey in Red Highways: A Journey into the Heartland.
Before joining KALW, Rose published a newsletter about women's issues and was a reporter and weekend host for CNET Radio, where she covered technology's impact on society. In college, she ran the TV and radio news departments and DJ'd a heavy metal show.
Rose's interests include hiking, vegan living, live music, and spending as much time underwater as possible.
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Since losing to Donald Trump and far-right Republicans in 2024, Democrats have engaged in a heated debate about the party’s future. What policies should they embrace? -
Up to 800,000 farmworkers in the US live in California, most of whom experience sexual assault, unsafe working conditions, low pay, and dangerous health risks. -
'Steal This Story, Please!' is a new documentary about Amy Goodman's trailblazing career as an independent journalist and co-founder and co-host of Democracy Now!. -
As more than half of Americans struggle to afford basic necessities, taxpayers are paying $4,049 for weapons and war and $1,870 for Pentagon contractors. -
Feminist scholar Carol Adams argues that the oppression of women and animals is inextricably linked. She asks: What can meat eating tell us about Western authoritarians? -
In "The Middle-Class New Deal," law professor Mechele Dickerson argues the erosion of the middle class wasn’t inevitable, but a policy choice. How can it be restored? -
In his new book, biologist David George Haskell explores the power of flowers, placing them at the center of the story of how evolution created the world we know today. -
Every year, 46,000 people die from gun violence in the US. The Trump administration cut funding for violence prevention programs, but California filled the gap. -
The Nation's Sasha Abramsky argues that from ICE detention centers in San Diego to the US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump is making the lives of many miserable. -
One in five women in the US has experienced an attempted or completed rape in her lifetime. How can we reach boys and men to end this cycle of violence?
