Hank Pellissier is a writer, editor, speaker, producer, and nonprofit director - he has been involved with

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, atheist, educational, and humanitarian topics.

Career

In the 1980s and 1990s, Pellissier used the moniker "Hank Hyena" as a San Francisco performance artist, slam poet, and metro journalist.

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, in a highly critical review of the anthology ''

The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry ''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'', edited by Alan Kaufman (writer), Alan Kaufman, is an anthology of American underground poets and fringe poetry from the 1950s to the 2000s."Bunker Down with a Good Book" by Meagan Black, Arc Poetry Magazine, ...

'' for ''New York Press'' in 2015, described Hank Hyena as one of the "better representatives of the 90s shout-it-out school of poetry". As Hank Hyena, Pellissier contributed to ''Salon.com'', ''SFGate.com'', and ''GettingIt.com'', performed at the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, and produced a "subversive" fashion show as part of a Mozart festival in San Francisco in 1991. Under his own name, Pellissier co-produced an atheist film festival in San Francisco 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 The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is a technoprogressive think tank that seeks to "promote ideas about how technological progress can increase freedom, happiness, and human flourishing in democratic societies."Joseph R. ...

(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''. 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. The Brighter Brains Institute built the “world’s first atheist orphanage” in Uganda in 2015 and it sent Soylent to support

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villagers of the

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. 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.” In 2020, his nonprofit changed its name to Humanist Global Charity, and in the same year, Pellissier started a think tank called Egalitarian Planet dedicated to global

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