Hank Green

Hank, who describes himself as an atheist, is married to Katherine Green since 2006. The couple is blessed with a son, Orin, born in October 2016. They live in Missoula, Montana.

Hank Green was born William Henry Green II on May 5, 1980 in Birmingham, Alabama, US to Mike and Sydney Green. His brother, John Michael Green, is a vlogger, author, writer, editor, actor and producer with whom he collaborates on different projects.

He grew up in Orlando, Florida where his family relocated soon after his birth. In Florida, he attended ‘Winter Park High School’ from where he graduated in 1998. He started developing and designing his websites as also that of local clients during his high school days which he continued through college life.

He attended ‘Eckerd College’ and obtained a B.S. degree in Biochemistry. Thereafter, he enrolled at the ‘University of Montana’ from where he earned a M.S. degree in Environmental Studies submitting his thesis titled "Of Both Worlds: How the Personal Computer and the Environmental Movement Change Everything".

While in Montana he concentrated more on creating sites for environmental non-profit organisations as also for educational institutes that included his university. During this time he created his environmental technology blog ‘EcoGeek’ that with time emerged as a major publication.

His writings also found place in several environmental blogs like ‘Planet Green’, ‘The Weather Channel’, ‘The National Geographic Green Guide’, ‘Yahoo! Green’ and ‘Scientific American’.

Hank remained a regular writer of Dennis Publishing’s print, digital and e-commerce media company ‘Mental Floss’ in the mid-2000s. He co-wrote the book ‘Mental Floss: Scatterbrained’.

Inspired by ‘the show with zefrank’, Hank and his brother John came up with the concept of the video blog project ‘Brotherhood 2.0’ that the two launched on January 1, 2007 and ran it through the year.

The concept of ‘Brotherhood 2.0’ saw the brothers communicating through vlogs on each weekday stopping all text-based communication for a year. Such vlogs were made publicly available through their website and YouTube channel ‘Vlogbrothers’.

Hank has written, recorded and performed many songs after he took up a challenge to perform an original song bi-weekly. Two such songs are ‘What Would Captain Picard Do?’ and ‘I'm Gonna Kill You’.

Their first breakthrough as vloggers came when Hank posted a video where he sang ‘Accio Deathly Hallows’ paying homage to the seventh Harry Potter book on July 18, 2007. The video marked the first of the Vlogbrothers to flash on YouTube’s front page.