Ruth Golden was New York born and Texas raised but has made Los Angeles her home.  After attending Carleton College in Northfield, MN, she began a successful career in television producing documentary, live, studio, and reality programming for many of the major cable networks.

She combined her experience in production and her passion for storytelling to make the documentary, The Silent Goldens, featuring first-time conversations with her family about her mother’s 1985 suicide and how they, as loss survivors, dealt with it. 

Like many of her generation, Ruth and her family didn’t talk about her mother’s death, but after 30 years, Ruth began to face the loss, leading to her involvement with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Didi Hirsch’s Survivors After Suicide support group. She gained awareness of how many other loss survivors struggled in silence as she did and discovered how conversation could heal, inspiring her to get her own family to share their emotions and talk.

She hopes her film can be used in service to train those working with suicide loss survivors and as part of her mission to bring awareness to loss survivor issues, encourage others still suffering in silence to speak, and serve as a cautionary tale to those who might one day face the tragedy of suicide.