Hank Hyena, aka Hank Pellissier, is a writer, non-profit director, producer, activist, Anarcho-Kropotkinist-Distributist-Pacifist-Localist — hankhyena1@gmail.com / Wikipedia

As a journalist, he was the Bay Area’s “Local Intelligence” columnist for the NYTimes.com - plus the “Odd Barking” and “Urban Animal” columnist for SFGate.com, and the “Naked World” columnist for Salon.com. He was also a writer for Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technology, a futurist think tank - penning 100+ forecasts. He’s authored 100 articles for GreatSchools.org plus dozens of essays on political and economic topics.

As Hank ‘Hyena’ - he was a critically-praised San Francisco performance artist and a Poetry Slam co-champion, anthologized in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He also taught Stand-Up Comedy writing for five years, as director of the nonprofit Hyena Comedy Institute, he directed SF preschools for five years, and his Master’s thesis was on the “Insect Haiku of Kobayashi Issa.”

He’s published six multiple e-books, including his most recent, What Would Peter Kropotkin Say?” He launched the activist groups RACCOON (Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective of Outrageous Noise), RAT (Radical Autonomous Tribe) and MegaMouth Rebels, and he’s the founder/director of the nonprofit Humanist Mutual Aid Network.

The political philosophers he admires most are Peter Kropotkin and Dorothy Day. He teaches a workshop for Bay Anarchist Free School called “What Kind of Anarchist Are You?” and he’s presently creating a theater show called “Dorothy Day and Peter Kropotkin Were Right About Almost Everything.”

Resume for Hank Pellissier aka Hank Hyena

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Non-Profit Director

  •     Founder/Director - Humanist Mutual Aid Network (projects in 46 nations)

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

  •     Founder/Director, The Kids' Co-op Inc. (preschools in Mission and Bernal Heights, San Francisco)

  •     Founder / Director, Hyena Comedy Institute (San Francisco, Oakland, Healdsburg)     

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+ articles

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

  • contributor to CCSA (Center for a Stateless Society)

  • contributor to The Hampton Institute (proletarian think tank)

Performer / Poet

  • “William, I Giggled With Your Girlfriend” published in Outlaw Bible of American Poetry

  • Fly-By-Night Theater Troupe (Davis, California)

  • Stage Left (Davis)

  • Hyena Cabaret (Davis, Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles)

  • “Hank Hyena” solo performance artist (San Francisco, Santa Cruz, New York, Buffalo, Cleveland, Los Angeles)

  • “Hank Hyena” Slam Poet, San Francisco Co-Champion, toured California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico

Activism (selected list)

  • Founder - RAT (Radical Autonomous Tribe), Mega Mouth Rebels, RACCOON (Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective of Outrageous Noise)

  • CodePink

  • Extinction Rebellion (San Francisco & Sacramento)

  • Food Not Bombs (volunteer)

  • East Bay Activists Community Dinner (founder/co-organizer)

  • Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists

  • Burmese Anarchism (webmaster, fundraiser)

Producer (selected list)

  • Peace Gatherings - 2 conferences in Berkeley

  • Berkeley Town Hall

  • Transhuman Visions - 10 conferences in SF Bay Area & 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)

  • 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 Commission

Teaching (Selected List)

  • What Kind of Anarchist Are You?” (taught at Tamarack, Oakland, via Anarchist Free School)

  • “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

Books (see below) “What Would Peter Kropotkin Say?)

email HankHyena1@gmail.com / text 415-309-3505