TJ with his wife Julie, founded StrHATE Talk Consulting in 2000, an organization that combats hate, bigotry, intolerance and discrimination through education.

 As you are aware, one of the most challenging messages to give people in today’s world is the message of tolerance and racial understanding in America.

From his unique perspective, TJ Leyden, a former neo-Nazi skinhead can take you on the tough but fulfilling journey from a world of hate into a world of hope. As a leading recruiter, organizer and propagandist for the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movement, Leyden spent 15 years promoting hate, bigotry and racism.

After turning his back completely on the white power movement, Leyden worked for 6 ½ years with the Task Force Against Hate at the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He was been a featured speaker at the Clinton White House Conference on Hate in Washington D.C. and was a major contributor to California Governor Gray Davis’s report “Governor’s Advisory Panel on Hate Groups.” Leyden has trained members of the Pentagon, FBI, military, law enforcement, educators, and over 800,000 students. He has also worked with the Department of Justice and other District Attorneys offices on a hate crimes cases, where all defendants have been found guilty.