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Heidi Beirich
Actor
Heidi Beirich formerly led the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, which publishes the award-winning Intelligence Report and the Hatewatch blog.
She is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate movements as well as racism in academia.
She oversaw the SPLC’s yearly count of the nation’s hate and hardline, anti-government groups and was a frequent contributor to the SPLC’s investigative reports and an oft-sought speaker at conferences on extremism. Before joining the SPLC staff in 1999, Beirich earned a doctorate in political science from Purdue University. She is the co-editor and author of several chapters of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction, published by the University of Texas Press in 2008.
She is an expert on various forms of extremism, including the white supremacist, nativist and neo-Confederate movements as well as racism in academia.
She oversaw the SPLC’s yearly count of the nation’s hate and hardline, anti-government groups and was a frequent contributor to the SPLC’s investigative reports and an oft-sought speaker at conferences on extremism. Before joining the SPLC staff in 1999, Beirich earned a doctorate in political science from Purdue University. She is the co-editor and author of several chapters of Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction, published by the University of Texas Press in 2008.
Filmography
| 2020 | UXA - Thomas Seltzers Amerika (TV Series) · as Self - Ekstremismeforsker |
| 2018 | Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (TV Series) · as Self - Intelligence Project Director, Splc |
| 2018 | Divided States (TV Series) · as Self - Intelligence Project Director, Southern Poverty Law Center |
| 2015 | Welcome to Leith · as Self - Intelligence Project Director |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Self - Southern Poverty Law Center |