Katie M. Golden is a professional patient, advocate and writer living a fulfilled life with chronic migraine and pain. For the past nine years, Katie has not experienced a break in pain. However, the pain fuels her personal mission: "Never Let Your Pain Go to Waste.” Through her blog, Golden Graine, Katie connects with others trying to navigate life when medical curveballs become the norm. She is extremely active in the migraine, headache and chronic pain communities.

Director of Patient Relations & Immediate Past Steering Committee of CHAMP (Coalition For Headache And Migraine Patients)
Consulting Editor for the INvisible Project Magazine
Migraine Advocacy Liaison for the U.S. Pain Foundation.
Staff writer for Migraine.com
National Headache Foundation's Patient Leadership Council
Miles for Migraine Warrior Advisory Board
Only patient on a joint NIH/FDA grant called MiCOAS, a two-year project to identify patient reported outcomes to incorporate patient-centered endpoints in clinical trials.

Katie worked for 15 years in commercial real estate finance at a community bank when her episodic migraine attacks became a chronic, everyday occurrence.

Unable to return to her career, she found purpose in her pain through writing and began writing for Migraine.com in 2013. She soon found ways to advocate for others with headache diseases and says that “advocating helped me reclaim any power migraine had stolen from me.”