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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According to Giffords, 46,000 people die from gun violence each year. As Trump has dismantled federal gun regulations, experts are pushing for stricter state legislation. -
The oceans are overheating and scientists say a climate tipping point may be here, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. -
According to the Center for American Progress’ Trump’s Take tracker, Trump and his family have made over $1.8 billion in cash and gifts since the 2024 election. -
As organizers call for a national shutdown in protest of ICE’s brutality, federal agents continue to carry out violent raids and detain people with no criminal record. -
The 2025 election not only saw the highest voter turnout in NYC in 50 years, but mobilized young and South Asian voters in record numbers to secure Mamdani’s victory. -
As the Trump administration wages an unprecedented attack on higher education, professors are organizing to defend academic freedom and fight authoritarianism. -
The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran has risen to at least 6,126, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. -
On Saturday, armed federal agents wearing masks and tactical vests, shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse in Minneapolis, setting off new wave of protests. -
A ProPublica investigation reveals how ICE agents routinely use chokeholds and other moves that restrict breathing, despite being banned by law enforcement. -
Ciji Graham, a 34-year-old mother in North Carolina, died waiting for an abortion after being denied a standard, life-saving heart procedure because she was pregnant.
