Marilyn Golden

Marilyn Golden is a disability rights activist, most notably in the area of transportation. She is currently a Policy Analyst at the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF). She served on the U.S. Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board from 1996 until 2005. She has also worked as the Director of Access California, which is a resource center on architectural accessibility for people with disabilities, and worked as Co-Coordinator of the Disabled International Support Effort, which aided disability organizations in developing nations. She is opposed to assisted suicide, and has fought against assisted suicide legislation in California, Hawaii, and Vermont.
In 2015 she was honored by the White House as a transportation “Champion of Change.”
She grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and is Jewish.