Interview with Heidi Beirich, Southern Poverty Law Center

Heidi Beirich leads one of the most highly regarded non-governmental operations monitoring hate groups and extremism in the world today. She oversees the production of SPLC's award-winning quarterly investigative journal, Intelligence Report, its Hatewatch blog and its annual hate group list. An expert on white nationalism, nativism and the racist neo-Confederate movement, Beirich also acts as a key SPLC spokeswoman for issues involving extremism. She has appeared on numerous television news programs and is regularly quoted by journalists and scholars in both the United States and abroad.