Hank Pellissier

Hank Pellissier is a writer, editor, speaker, producer, and nonprofit director - he has been involved with transhumanist, atheist, educational, and humanitarian topics.

Hank Pellissier
Pellissier in 2008
Pen nameHank Hyena

Career

In the 1980s and 1990s, Pellissier used the moniker "Hank Hyena" as a San Francisco performance artist, slam poet, and metro journalist. John Strausbaugh, in a highly critical review of the anthology The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry for New York Press in 2015, described Hank Hyena as one of the "better representatives of the 90s shout-it-out school of poetry".[1] As Hank Hyena, Pellissier contributed to Salon.com, SFGate.com, and GettingIt.com,[2] performed at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival,[3] and produced a "subversive" fashion show as part of a Mozart festival in San Francisco in 1991.[4] Under his own name, Pellissier co-produced an Atheist Film Festival in San Francisco[5] and contributed to The New York Times column "Local Intelligence."

Pellissier has published transhumanist/futurist essays in HplusMagazine, and, in the early 2010s, he wrote articles for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) where he was appointed managing director in 2012. His essay “Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives” was re-published in Best of H+ Magazine.[6] He has also self-published the books Invent Utopia Now: Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era, Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High?, and Brighter Brains - 225 Ways to Elevate or Injure IQ.

After leaving IEET, he started the websites Transhumanity.net and the nonprofit Brighter Brains Institute and produced eight "Transhuman visions" conferences in the SF Bay Area.[7] The Brighter Brains Institute built the “world’s first atheist orphanage” in Uganda in 2015[8][9] and it sent Soylent to support Mangyan villagers of the Philippines. Pellissier stated that he finds "it appalling that people want to go to Mars but they neglect the fact that there are millions of people in the world who are starving.”[10]  In 2020, his nonprofit changed its name to Humanist Global Charity,[11] and in the same year, Pellissier started a think tank called Egalitarian Planet dedicated to global egalitarianism.

See also

References
  1. Strausbaugh, John. "Beat & the brats". New York Post. Archived from the original on March 9, 2000. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  2. "Hank Pellissier". salon.com. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  3. "Cleveland Performance Art Festival Detailed Shelflist". web.ulib.csuohio.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. "MOZART CELEBRATIONS BRING OUT THE BIZARRE IN SAN FRANCISCO". Deseret News. Reuter News Service. 1991-05-23. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  5. "About the Festival | Atheist Film Festival". 2013-11-17. Archived from the original on 2013-11-17. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  6. Sirius, R. U. Goertzel, Ben; Orban, David (eds.). Best of H+ Magazine, Vol.1: 2008-2010. ASIN 1496073312.
  7. Karlin, Anatoly (September 1, 2013). "A Meeting with Hank Pellissier". Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  8. "The World's First Atheist Orphanage Has Launched a Crowdfunding Campaign". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. Sloat, Sarah. "An Atheist Ugandan Orphanage Beats Back Superstition and Zealotry With Science". Inverse. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  10. "A Transhumanist Wants to Feed DIY Soylent to Starving Children". www.vice.com. Retrieved June 15, 2021.
  11. "2020 Annual Report". Humanist Global Charity. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
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