Tony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-nazi movements, starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions and was instrumental in ushering in the internet building one of the first white supremacist websites for Resistance Records in the mid 90’s.
Tony’s expertise is gleaned from receiving over a thousand hours of one on one and group counselling to understand his own process. Tony has spent countless hours coaching and mentoring change in others and is a certified Life Coach.
Tony has been involved in Life After Hate since its inception in 2011 and served as Executive Director from 2013-2017 while Life After Hate developed its online support groups and the EXIT USA program (based on EXIT Sweden’s model). In 2017 he became Board Chair until his departure in December 2019.
Tony continues to work closely in informing law enforcement, government and NGOs at all levels across four continents and is the author of “The Cure For Hate – A Former White Supremacist’s Journey From Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion.” Tony is featured in the documentary “Healing From Hate” (available on Prime) and the upcoming documentary The Cure For Hate – Bearing Witness To Auschwitz.”
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
