12 Facts About Jeff Golden

Jeff Golden is the producer and host of the regional PBS series Immense Possibilities.

Jeff Golden's siblings include KC Golden, Policy Director for the Seattle based Climate Change Advocacy group Climate Solutions; Michael Golden, a tribal judge in Humboldt County, California; and Jesse Golden.

Jeff Golden grew up in Beverly Hills, California, and graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1968 as the Student Body President and at the top of his class.

Jeff Golden attended Harvard University as a Harvard National Scholar, a scholarship program established in honor of Harvard's 300th anniversary with the goal of encouraging and enabling a small number of the best students from across the nation to attend the university.

At college, Jeff Golden was active in efforts in opposition to the Vietnam War.

The experience inspired Jeff Golden to leave Harvard and try to build a sustainable life on a plot of land in rural Southern Oregon, an experience chronicled in Jeff Golden's first published book, Watermelon Summer: A Journal.

In 1980, Jeff 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.

Jeff Golden has spent 25 years in public broadcasting, print journalism, politics, and mediation.

Jeff Golden left the radio show in June 2007 to explore a candidacy for the United States Senate in the 2008 election.

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

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

In July 2007, Jeff Golden announced his intention to run against Gordon Smith for the US Senate seat for Oregon.