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Denver Riggleman In Conversation With Christian Picciolini

The Mighty Peculiar

On this very special episode former domestic terrorist hunter, Denver Riggleman chats with former white supremacist Christian Picciolini

Short Bio and Links

Christian Picciolini is an award-winning television producer, a public speaker, author, antiracism
advocate, and a former extremist. Christian chronicles his involvement in and exit from the early
American white-supremacist skinhead movement in his memoir, WHITE AMERICAN YOUTH, and
is the featured subject in season 3 of WBEZ-Chicago’s 'Motive' podcast, which received the 2021
National Edward R. Murrow Award for best podcast in large market radio. For nearly two decades,
he has helped hundreds of individuals disengage from hate. He has highlighted his disengagement
process in a second book, BREAKING HATE, published in 2020 by Hachette Books, as well as in the
MSNBC documentary series of the same name that aired in 2018-2019.



https://storycorps.org/stories/johnny-holmes-and-christian-picciolini-171006/

TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/christian_picciolini_my_descent_into_america_s_neo_nazi_movement_and_how_i_got_out?language=en

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