Jeffrey Simon Golden (born April 24, 1950) is a political activist, radio personality, politician, and author from Southern Oregon.

Golden and his then girlfriend Catherine Shaw were featured in the 1978 documentary film Riverdogs by fellow Harvard alumnus Robb Moss.

In 1980, Golden was accepted into the Stanford University’s Broadcast Communications master's program after publishing Watermelon Summer, an essay about his life in the 1970s.

This award-winning daily talk and interview program aired on NPR’s largest regional network in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

[citation needed] The show was described by the website as a "lively two-hour interactive program devoted to issues facing the State of Jefferson, the Northwest, the nation and the world.

One result in the wake of the controversy was his nomination for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation Profile and Courage award,[citation needed] the nation's most prestigious honor for elected public servants Golden was the first nominee from Oregon.

[citation needed] In 1990, after narrowly losing to fourth-term Republican incumbent Lenn Hannon for a seat in the State Senate, Golden took the position of Bill Bradbury’s Chief of Staff in 1993.