TM Garret Schmid (born September 28, 1975 as Achim Schmid), publicly known as TM Garret, is a German-American author, producer, filmmaker, marketing expert, radio personality, 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 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 became a white supremacist and founded a series of racist skinhead bands with names like Celtic Moon, Wolfsrudel (Wolfspack) and Höllenhunde (Hounds of Hell).

On December 5, 2014, Garret and his artist Jimmy Miles were awarded with a resolution from the Alabama State Senate, signed by Senator Roger Bedford Jr.[citation needed] In 2014 he helped promote T. Graham Brown's duet "He'll Take Care of You" with Vince Gill, a song from Brown's album Forever Changed which was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Roots Gospel Album.

The campaign was featured in the short film Rewired,[18] a documentary by the Chapman University about Garret, local news outlets German national television show Galileo[19] and other international formats.

hateXchange Together with other activists and members of Exit Deutschland, Garret developed HateXchange, the official counterpart to EXIT Deutschland's award-winning program named Hass Hilft (Donate the Hate),[20] where residents and sponsors turn neo-Nazi marches into "involuntary walk-a-thons" by raising money for an anti-extremist organization.

[21] Besides "walk-a-thons" and "park-a-thons"[22] as on November 10, 2017 in Charleston, South Carolina, donations are also involuntarily raised by hate comments on social media.

[23] After an article about his tattoo cover-up campaign, which was published in the Guardian [24] went viral, Garret was approached by several major TV production companies to film a docuseries about his work.

On February 18, 2019 he signed an agreement with Koska Ltd. from Brighton, UK, headed by former MD of Warner Bros TV Production U.K, Supernanny creator and executive producer of The Real Housewives of New York City, Nick Emmerson.