Hank Pellissier aka Hank Hyena

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Non-Profit Director

  •     Founder/Director - Humanist Mutual Aid Network

  • Founder/Director - The Free HuMAN Academy

  • Managing Director, Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technology (think tank)

  •     Founder/Director, The Kids' Co-op Inc. (two preschools)

  •     Founder / Director, Hyena Comedy Institute        

Journalist (selected list)

  • New York Times - weekly columnist (“Local Intelligence” - San Francisco edition)

  • GreatSchools.org - regular contributor, 100+ articles

  • Salon.com - daily columnist (“Naked World’)

  • SFGate.com - weekly pet & animal columnist ("Urban Animal")

  • SFGate.com - weekly entertainment columnist (“Odd Barkings”)

  • Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology - regular contributor, 100+ articless

  • contributor to San Francisco Bay Guardian, World Future Society, HPlusMagazine

Activism (selected list)

  • Founder - RAT (Radical Autonomous Tribe)

  • Founder - Mega Mouth Rebels

  • Founder - RACCOON (Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective of Outrageous Noise)

  • CodePink

  • Extinction Rebellion (San Francisco & Sacramento)

Producer (selected list)

  • Peace Gatherings - 2 conferences in Berkeley

  • Transhuman Visions - 10 conferences in SF Bay Are & Washington D.C.

  • North Beach Street Utopia 2010  http://streetutopia.org 

  • Atheist Film Festival (San Francisco)

  • Capuchin Cabaret (Monteverde, Costa Rica)  

  • Hyena Comedy All-Stars (50 performances in San Francisco Bay Area)

  • Buddhist Performance Festival (San Francisco)

  • DADA Festival (San Francisco)

  • Underground Mozart Festival (San Francisco)

  • Hyena Cabaret (theater troupe performed in Davis, Berkeley, San Francisco)

  • Stage Left (theater troupe in Davis)

  • Davis Literary Anthology

Grants & Awards (selected list)

  • “ Gas, Grub & Grammar” poetry tour -- funded by Mouth Almighty, Mercury Records

  • San Francisco Poetry Slam Co-Champion

  • Artist-In-Residence, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California

  • “The Anarchist’s Vomit” performance in film by Witter Bynner Center for Poetry

  • " I Wanna Future" (performance art) funded by Zellerbach Family Fund 

  • " I Wanna Future" funded by Fleischhacker Foundation 

  • " Miracles of the Flesh" (performance art) funded by New Langton Arts 

  • " Miracles of the Flesh" funded by Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art 

  • " Poo-tai-toi" (Davis Literary Anthology ) funded by Davis Arts Commissio

Teaching (Selected List)

  • “Grantwriting for Creative Artists” (taught 10 years at Fort Mason Center (San Francisco), San Jose State & Cal State Northridge)

  • "The Comic Monologue" (UC Berkeley Extension)

  •  “Stand Up Comedy” (Hyena Comedy Institute)

  •  "Subversive Humor" (New College of California)

  • "The Art of Comedy " (guest lecturer, San Francisco State)

  • "Text & Image" (guest lecturer, Art Center School of Design, Pasadena)

  • "Performance Art" (guest lecturer, California College of Arts & Crafts)

  • "Performance Art" (guest lecturer at Cleveland Art Institute)

Education

  • BA History, University of California at Santa Barbara 

  • MA Humanities, California State University at Dominguez Hills