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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Amidst the joy of Pride, we discuss how the Trump administration's policies are hurting LGBTQ+ communities and find out how they are resisting and fighting back. -
On Friday, Trump's ICE raided several Los Angeles locations, including car washes and a garment factory. Family members are still searching for loved ones. -
An unhealthy diet is the leading risk factor for death in the US, according to research published in the Lancet. Studies show a healthy diet can reverse chronic diseases. -
Professor Joan Williams is back to continue our discussion about her new book, "Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back." -
Governor Newsom’s budget would drastically cut a variety of social programs. Advocates say balancing the budget on the backs of the most vulnerable is a moral failure. -
A new Al Jazeera/Reveal documentary tells the story of 20 US doctors who have witnessed a systematic pattern of Palestinian children shot by the Israeli military. -
Amy Littlefield reports that abortion bans have pushed patients further into pregnancy. Later-abortion patients are among the most vulnerable people in the country. -
Washington Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has extensively covered the 523 Indian boarding schools established in the US, where 3,104 students died between 1828 and 1970. -
Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa discuss their Pulitzer Prize winning book, "His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice." -
Doctors say aggressive forms of prostate cancer are difficult to catch. How can we improve screening protocols to prevent late stage diagnoses and improve survival rates?
