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Peter Santenello

Biography

Peter Santenello

Peter Santenello is an independent journalist and filmmaker with over four million subscribers on YouTube. He’s traveled to 85 countries and lived in five, building a global audience by letting people tell their stories in their own words. These days, Peter’s lens is focused squarely on the United States, where he explores the diverse, complex and often misrepresented communities that make up the fabric of America.

Peter Santenello

Books by Peter Santenello

Your Fellow Americans: Dispatches from Across the Country We Call Home
by Peter Santenello - Memoir, Nonfiction, Travel

Have you ever swapped stories on a porch with Amish snowbirds in Florida? Searched for reindeer with the Siberian Yupik in Alaska? Been a guest on a houseboat deep in the Louisiana bayou? Peter Santenello hadn’t either until, after years spent traveling through 85 countries and living abroad, he realized the most unfamiliar territory was often his own American backyard. And so, with a camera in hand and an open mind, he began visiting communities across the country, places that most of the media overlooks or misrepresents, from tiny towns in Appalachia to the streets of East LA. What began as curiosity became --- one story at a time --- an intimate, revealing portrait of America today.