Christian Picciolini

Christian Marco Picciolini (born November 3, 1973) is an American former extremist who is the founder of the Free Radicals Project, a global network working to prevent extremism and help people disengage from hate movements. He is the author of a memoir, ''Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead'', which details his time as a leader of the white power movement in the U.S. An updated version of the story was published in 2017, titled ''White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out.'' His book ''Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism'' (2020) looks at how extremists recruit the vulnerable to their causes. Provided by Wikipedia