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TM Garret      

Author, Producer, Filmmaker, Radio Personality & Human Rights Activist

TM Garret Schmid, publicly known as TM Garret, is a German-American author, producer, filmmaker, marketing expert, radio personality, former white supremacist leader turned human rights activist and founder of C.H.A.N.G.E, a Memphis-based non-profit organization which engages in community outreach programs, food drives, seminars, anti-racism campaigns and anti-violence campaigns.

He is also the founder and organizer of the annual Memphis Peace Conference, which includes an Inter-Faith and a Community Panel and was first held at Withers Collection Museum and Gallery in Memphis on Sep 29, 2018. He also fills-in as an anchor on weekend news on WGN-TV in Chicago. He is also an outspoken Interfaith activist and director and board member of World Religion Day Memphis, US ambassador for EXIT Germany and campus speaker against anti-Semitism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He has lectured at schools like Harvard, Boston Law School, Hotchkiss and Pomona.

Speech Topics


THE NEW OLD ANTI SEMITISM

Corporate, Community, Places of Worship, Schools

Presentation Type: Lecture

Length 45 minutes plus Q&A

Subject: A lecture about the history of Anti-Semitism and why it’s still around today

MULTI CULTURE AND ASSIMILATION

Corporate, Community, Places of Worship, Schools

Presentation Type: Lecture

Length 45 minutes plus Q&A

Subject: It usually takes a little bit, but at some point, America is usually integrating and accepting its immigrants. But for some of them it takes longer or seem nearly impossible. A lecture to learn about White, Christian immigration vs. Non-White and Non-Christian immigration and the differences thereof.

LET’S TALK ABOUT RACE

Corporate, Community, Places of Worship, Schools

Presentation Type: Lecture

Length 45 minutes plus Q&A

Subject: How many White people have black friends who are regulars at their dinner table? How many Black People have white friends who are regulars at their dinner table? Do you talk about race or are you walking on eggshells, afraid to ask maybe uncomfortable questions? A lecture to learn how to talk “race” with someone who looks different than you.

THE LOST ART OF CIVIC DISCOURSE

Corporate, Community, Places of Worship, Schools

Presentation Type: Lecture

Length 45 minutes plus Q&A

Subject: Too often we talk past each other, about each other or simply yell at each other. A lecture to learn to understand respectful and meaningful conversation through finding commonalities.

UNDERSTANDING HATE

Corporate, Community, Places of Worship, Schools

Presentation Type: Lecture

Length 45 minutes plus Q&A

Subject: Is there a need to understand hate or even hateful people? Who do we perceive as hateful? Do we want hateful people go away, or their opinions and change them? A lecture to learn to understand how to empathize without sympathizing

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