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, “Brought To You By,” journalist Amy Westervelt exposes the PR agencies, think tanks, and lobbyists that have corrupted the information ecosystem. -
Today, we kick off our midterm coverage by discussing key Senate and House races and what's at stake. Which races are you watching? -
Independent media brings pressing issues to light, holds power accountable, and tells stories that resonate far beyond our communities. -
In the new three-part series, 'We Are Jane Doe,' host Madi Bolaños follows Aliksandria Prout’s fight for justice after being sexually assaulted in a California prison. -
Flyaway Production’s new dance-based performance art project explores the intersection of libraries and prisons as opposite ends of the route to freedom. -
In her book, national security journalist Sharon Weinberger says we are in the midst of an era in which tech oligarchs are shaping how – and which – wars are fought. -
Protesters gathered at OpenAI’s Dev Day event in San Francisco today to demand that Sam Altman and OpenAI stop contracting with the military and ICE. -
Your CallMother Jones reports that Salus, CSI, and GEO, which are profiting from Trump's immigration crackdown, are fighting over portions of the Trump-era deportation industry. -
Your CallThe UN’s World Food Programme reports that one in three Afghans is facing acute food insecurity with millions of lacking access to basic needs. -
Your CallSF Chronicle investigations expose how ISFO is now a immigration detention center, and medical failures at ICE detention centers that put detainees’ lives at risk.
