Media Midwife, Ahri Golden, is an award-winning artist + producer, podcast coach + professor + a mother of two informed by a passion for making meaning through stories and creative response to the world that is unfolding within and around us. She has worked at the convergence of sound and story for over 20 years, with NPR, Public Radio International, Public Radio Exchange, Slate, and Salon, among other partners.
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Golden co-created Shades of Gray, a public radio documentary about the many sides of the abortion debate, which won The Golden Reel Award for Best National Radio Documentary. She co-created Birth and Born, public radio documentaries about perceptions of birth and postpartum in the US. In parallel, she co-created The Birth Tour, a nationwide participatory experience based on live story sharing about birth. |
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Inspired by the fusion of grit and grace in her own experience of mothering two children, Golden turned the microphone on herself to produce Delve, an award-winning 10 song autobiographical album. Her music and story are featured in The Goddess Project, a documentary film sharing empowerment stories of inspiring women.
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Golden's experimental audio projects enlist documentary, music and memoir to create a more urgent human response to the roiling changes in society. In response to the 2016 election Golden created A Mother's Lens hailed as a "new genre" podcast series. When the pandemic hit, Golden turned her search for solace into Bending In 2020, a podcast series featuring portraits of wisdom and resilience in the Covid Era. Both series were nationally distributed by NPR's 51%.
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In 2021, Golden launched an experimental podcast series, STILLPOINT, weaving stories and songs, conversations and wisdom, illuminating resilience, courage, and transformation in a changing world. With jazzy rhythms and sound design, heartbeats and rhymes, voices held in time in episonic journeys of making it through to the other side. 
Top 20 Experimental Design Podcasts of 2021
Golden is Adjunct Professor in the Emerging Media and Digital Arts Department at Southern Oregon University, where she created and teaches the next generation of media makers ALIVE: YOUR VOICE, THIS MOMENT, a collective expression of resilience and courage in harrowing times of change.
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In further response to the zeitgeist, Golden was inspired to develop offerings for visionary women and mother leaders to co-create an innovative podcast series or live audio experiences contributing to the regenerative, emerging culture.
Hence, Media Midwife was born in 2021. |