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
Founder/editor of Anarchist-Utopian News
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)
contributor to IndyBay (independent media collective)
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)
“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
“Comic Revolutionary Cabaret” services at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
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)
Burmese Anarchists (webmaster, fundraiser)
Producer (selected list)
Anarchist-Utopian Potluck Picnic at Lake Merritt
East Bay Activist Community Dinner (co-organizer)
Peace Gatherings - conferences in Berkeley
Berkeley People’s Assembly
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 & Interviews (selected list)
Interviewed by KPFA and KBOO (Portland) for “Creating Utopia” workshop
Interviewed by KPFA for “MegaMouth Rebels” activist group
“ 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)
“Creating Utopia - Designing an Ideal Society” at Lakeview Oakland Library
“Anarchist History Quiz Contest” presented via Free Skool (Santa Cruz) and Eugene (Oregon) and Varna (Bulgaria)
“What Kind of Anarchist Are You?” (taught via Bay Anarchist Free School, and Free Skool, Santa Cruz)
“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?)
