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
Hank Pellissier in 2020
Pen nameHank Hyena
Notable worksInvent Utopia Now: Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era

Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High? - scientific factors that influence intelligence

Brighter Brains - 22 Ways to Elevate or Injure IQ

Career

In the 1980s - 1990s Pellissier used the moniker “Hank Hyena” as a San Francisco performance artist, slam poet, and metro journalist. He was featured at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival[1] where he shared the stage with Annie Sprinkle.[2] He was described as one of the “best representatives of 90’s shout it out poetry”[3] for his inclusion in the Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Additionally, he was columnist and contributor to Salon.com.[4] SFGate.com[5] and GettingIt.com[6] and he produced a subversive fashion show of Austrian Undergarments for a Mozart Festival.[7] Under his own name, Pellissier co-produced ‘the world’s first atheist film festival” in San Francisco[8] and was The New York Times columnist of “Local Intelligence.”[9]

Pellissier started writing transhumanist/futurist essays in 2009; initially he wrote 22 for HplusMagazine.[10] In 2011 he wrote 30 articles[11] for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Seven of his articles placed in the Top 12 in 2011 hits. In 2012 he was appointed the Managing Director of the IEET, plus he continued to write for the site, finishing the year with 4 articles in the Top 12. He also conducted a Transhumanist Survey[12] with funding from the Terasem Foundation. Additionally, with this funding he started the websites Transhumanity.net and the nonprofit Brighter Brains Institute, and produced eight TRANSHUMAN VISIONS conferences in the SF Bay Area[13] featuring speakers (both live and remote) like Aubrey de Grey, Max More, Natasha Vita More, James Hughes, David Brin, Zoltan Istvan, and Maria Konovalenko among others.[14][15]

Pellissier is the author of multiple e-books including, "Invent Utopia Now: Transhumanist Suggestions for the Pre-Singularity Era”, "Why is the IQ of Ashkenazi Jews so High?",[16] and "Brighter Brains - 225 Ways to Elevate or Injure IQ."[17] He's written 100 education articles for GreatSchools.org,[18] and “Forgiveness” articles for Greater Good Magazine. His essay “Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat Will Change Our Lives”[19]  has been re-published numerous times, including in Best of H+ Magazine.[20]

His Brighter Brains Institute built the “world’s first atheist orphanage” in Uganda in 2015[21][22] and it sent Soylent to support Mangyan villagers of the Philippines.[23] 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.”[24]  In 2020, his nonprofit changed its name to Humanist Global Charity; it provided over $100,000 in humanitarian aid in 2019 to secular humanists in India and Sub-Saharan Africa[25] and it offers internships in Africa Development, India Development, and Wealth Redistribution.[26] Pellissier’s recent project Egalitarian Planet indicates his interest in Global Egalitarianism.[27]

References
  1. "Cleveland Performance Art Festival Detailed Shelflist". web.ulib.csuohio.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  2. "Metroactive Arts | Annie Sprinkle". www.metroactive.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  3. "Beat & the Brats". www.nypress.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  4. "Salon.com". www.salon.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  5. Hyena, Hank (1998-06-02). "COUNTING THE POLLIWOGS: Hank Hyena Gets a Sperm Analysis". SFGate. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  6. "Gettingit.com: Articles by Hank Hyena". gettingit.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  7. News, Deseret (1991-05-23). "MOZART CELEBRATIONS BRING OUT THE BIZARRE IN SAN FRANCISCO". Deseret News. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  8. "About the Festival | Atheist Film Festival". 2013-11-17. Archived from the original on 2013-11-17. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  9. Pellissier, Hank (2010-08-28). "Black Power Statue". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  10. "Eight Ways In-Vitro Meat will Change Our Lives". h+ Media. November 17, 2009. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  11. "Hank Pellissier". ieet.org. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  12. Pellissier, Hank; Dal Santo, Teresa (2013). "TRANSHUMANISTS: WHO ARE THEY, WHAT DO THEY WANT, BELIEVE AND PREDICT?" (PDF). Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness. 8: 20–29.
  13. Karlin, Anatoly (September 1, 2013). "A Meeting with Hank Pellissier". Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  14. Peter (2014-03-27). "Event: EROS EVOLVING – THE FUTURE OF LOVE, SEX, MARRIAGE and BEAUTY (produced by TRANSHUMAN VISIONS)". h+ Media. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  15. https://kurzweilai.net. "Religion and Transhumanism — the future of faith, ethics, and philosophy « Kurzweil". Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  16. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Why-IQ-Ashkenazi-Jews-High-ebook/dp/B00JTN4JL0/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=why+is+the+IQ+of+Ashkenazi+Jews+so+high&qid=1601389689&s=digital-text&sr=1-1. Retrieved 2020-09-29. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. Pellissier, Hank. "Brighter Brains: 225 Ways to Elevate or Injure IQ". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  18. "Hank Pellissier, Author at GreatSchools". Parenting. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  19. "Eight Ways IN-Vitro Meat Wil Change Our Lives" - Bing". www.bing.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  20. Sirius, R. U. Goertzel, Ben; Orban, David (eds.). Best of H+ Magazine, Vol.1: 2008-2010. ASIN 1496073312.
  21. "The World's First Atheist Orphanage Has Launched a Crowdfunding Campaign". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  22. Sloat, Sarah. "An Atheist Ugandan Orphanage Beats Back Superstition and Zealotry With Science". Inverse. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  23. "A Transhumanist Wants to Feed DIY Soylent to Starving Children". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  24. Swain, Frank (July 4, 2014). "A Transhumanist Wants to Feed DIY Soylent to Starving Children". Motherboard Vice. Retrieved July 1, 2015.
  25. "2019 Taxes 990-EZ - with fund recipients". Humanist Global Charity. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  26. "Interns". Humanist Global Charity. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  27. "Egalitarian Planet". Egalitarian Planet. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
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