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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In her new book, Amy Littlefield interviews those in the anti-abortion and pro-abortion movements to find out how conservatives successfully overturned Roe. -
Yesterday, six states, including California, Iowa, and Montana, held primary elections. What do the results reveal about the state of politics, voters, and the midterms? -
Since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, special interest groups have funneled millions into elections, including $79M in the California governor’s race. -
According to Greenpeace USA, the Center for Biological Diversity, and California Environmental Voters, Tom Steyer has the best climate policies of the frontrunners. -
Only eight percent of voters have turned in their ballots ahead of the June 2 election amid the ongoing and chaotic race for governor, according to CalMatters. -
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. -
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. -
Following the Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, Republicans have rushed to draw new congressional maps to maintain their grip on Congress. -
Somalia has suffered civil war, famine, drought, and conflict, but USAID cuts and the war in the Middle East have now pushed the country to the brink of catastrophe. -
Trump continues to whitewash the history of the US by embracing the Doctrine of Discovery ahead of this country's so-called 250th birthday. How are scholars responding?
