Arno Michaelis
Essayist
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Arno Michaelis was a leader of a worldwide racist skinhead organization, a reverend of a self-declared Racial Holy War, and lead singer of the hate-metal band Centurion.
Single parenthood, love for his daughter, and the forgiveness shown by people he once hated all helped to turn Arno's life around, bringing him to embrace diversity and practice gratitude for all life.
After spending over a decade as an information technology consultant and entrepreneur, Arno is now a speaker, the author of My Life After Hate, and shares his ongoing process of character development as an educator working with the Milwaukee nonprofit Serve 2 Unite.