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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A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica recently made public, reveals deep financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they regulate. -
Since Israel signed a ceasefire agreement on October 10, 2025, nearly seven months ago, more than 840 Palestinians have been killed and over 2,400 have been wounded. -
San Francisco congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti says he’s running to deliver Medicare for All, affordable housing, political reform, and clean energy. -
Following the Supreme Court conservatives' decision to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act, Republicans are moving rapidly to redraw maps and eliminate Black districts. -
If Democrats split the vote, we could have two Republicans at the top of the ticket in November. So far, low polling Democrats are not dropping out. How are you voting? -
The bill includes $187 billion in SNAP cuts, expands SNAP work requirements, and restricts eligibility for undocumented immigrants. It now goes to the Senate. -
The Trump administration has hired private debt collectors to hound immigrants with multimillion-dollar civil penalties for not leaving the US, according to The Lever. -
The Frontline/ProPublica Caught in the Crackdown documentary traces the violence, protests and arrests stemming from federal immigration sweeps across the country. -
For the first time in decades, California voters are getting ready to cast their ballots in a Governor’s race that has no clear frontrunner ahead of the June 2 primary. -
A report from Court Accountability finds that Trump-appointed judges rule in his favor nearly 70 percent of the time – three times more than other GOP-appointed judges.
