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Award-Winning Media Midwife Ahri Golden is an immersive sonic story maker, podcast series + sonic legacy creator, consultant, professor and mother of two. In 2002, she met her soulmate husband, Jay Golden, in the "Women Seeking Men" section on Craigslist and of the 50 responses she sensed he would be the father of her children. She was spot on.
Golden, fascinated by being human, is deeply informed by stories and creative response to the world that is unfolding within and around us.
In 2004, when contemplating becoming a mother, she 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.
While pregnant, Golden was inspired to co-create BIRTH and then BORN, two public radio documentaries about birth + postpartum in the US. Both series were nationally distributed by Public Radio International. In parallel, she created THE BIRTH TOUR, a nationwide media listening and story sharing event for mothers to build community.
Then, further inspired by the mothering journey, Golden created DELVE, a 10 song autobiographical album that won Best Jazz Song from the American Songwriting Awards. Her story + music is featured in THE GODDESS PROJECT, a feature film sharing stories of inspiring women.
Golden's experimental audio projects inspired through lived experience enlist documentary, music + memoir to create a more urgent human response to the roiling changes in society.
After the 2016 election, she was moved to integrate song and story with 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 in the Covid Era. Both series were nationally distributed by NPR's 51%.
Also in the midst of Covid, Golden launched an experimental podcast series, STILLPOINT, weaving stories + songs, conversations + wisdom, illuminating human resilience and transformation. This work was named Top 20 Experimental Design Podcasts of 2021 by the UK Welp Magazine.
Golden is Adjunct Media Professor at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches her course ALIVE: YOUR VOICE, THIS MOMENT, supporting students to sonically hone one courageous story from life that gives them strength in times of great change.
In 2022, parenting and working through the pandemic was an invitation to create from the wisdom of women amidst collective catastrophe. Golden now embodies the role of MEDIA MIDWIFE in THE STORY WOMB,
making immersive soundscape stories through PODCAST SERIES CREATION and SONIC LEGACY CREATIONS.
Award-Winning Media Midwife Ahri Golden is an immersive sonic story maker, podcast series + sonic legacy creator, consultant, professor and mother of two. In 2002, she met her soulmate husband, Jay Golden, in the "Women Seeking Men" section on Craigslist and of the 50 responses she sensed he would be the father of her children. She was spot on.
Golden, fascinated by being human, is deeply informed by stories and creative response to the world that is unfolding within and around us.
In 2004, when contemplating becoming a mother, she 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.
While pregnant, Golden was inspired to co-create BIRTH and then BORN, two public radio documentaries about birth + postpartum in the US. Both series were nationally distributed by Public Radio International. In parallel, she created THE BIRTH TOUR, a nationwide media listening and story sharing event for mothers to build community.
Then, further inspired by the mothering journey, Golden created DELVE, a 10 song autobiographical album that won Best Jazz Song from the American Songwriting Awards. Her story + music is featured in THE GODDESS PROJECT, a feature film sharing stories of inspiring women.
Golden's experimental audio projects inspired through lived experience enlist documentary, music + memoir to create a more urgent human response to the roiling changes in society.
After the 2016 election, she was moved to integrate song and story with 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 in the Covid Era. Both series were nationally distributed by NPR's 51%.
Also in the midst of Covid, Golden launched an experimental podcast series, STILLPOINT, weaving stories + songs, conversations + wisdom, illuminating human resilience and transformation. This work was named Top 20 Experimental Design Podcasts of 2021 by the UK Welp Magazine.
Golden is Adjunct Media Professor at Southern Oregon University, where she teaches her course ALIVE: YOUR VOICE, THIS MOMENT, supporting students to sonically hone one courageous story from life that gives them strength in times of great change.
In 2022, parenting and working through the pandemic was an invitation to create from the wisdom of women amidst collective catastrophe. Golden now embodies the role of MEDIA MIDWIFE in THE STORY WOMB,
making immersive soundscape stories through PODCAST SERIES CREATION and SONIC LEGACY CREATIONS.
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