Kristen Golden is a feminist writer and activist whose creative work runs the gamut of genres. She is the writer of the screenplay AWE, for which she won the 2023 Chinonye Chukwu Emerging Writer award from the Athena Film Festival, and she was one of six screenwriters selected for the 2022 Athena Film Festival’s Writers Lab. She is the co-author with her wife, Barbara Findlen, of the book Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century: 100 Portraits of Achievement. Kristen was a contributing editor to Ms. magazine, and she is currently the speechwriter for the Women’s Media Center. As a five-time cancer survivor, Kristen has had to gather the courage and mental fortitude to push through painful treatments—which at times felt like a solo expedition of epic proportions.