Mark Hancock was a student in the original “Third Wave” class (now simply known as “The Wave”) and is now a class historian and Associate Producer of two Third Wave documentary films: Lesson Plan (2010) (which resulted in a national CINE Golden Eagle Award and bronze Telly Award, plus other film festival awards), and The Invisible Line: America’s Nazi Experiment (2019), produced by the History Channel in Germany. He is also manager and webmaster of the primary Wave story resource website, www.thewavehome.com.

An international teacher and speaker, Mark has visited and supported many Wave classes, theater projects, and film festival screenings in the United States and internationally, including in the US, Canada, England, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, Israel and India. Providing media support in TV, radio and print, Mark has been quoted in the London Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Jerusalem Post, and The Huffington Post. He has spoken at Holocaust centers and synagogues and a highlight of his work was a presentation at the United Nations.

Mark is currently a PhD student in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at Gratz College. He holds a Master’s in Nonprofit [NGO] Leadership from Seattle University and a BA in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley (and before that at UC Santa Barbara), Mark witnessed the major student demonstrations and riots in the late 1960s. One fun anecdote is that six months after the Wave class, he attended Dulwich College in London (the type of school Harry Potter was modeled after). Mark is a lifelong civic volunteer and activist with a long history of community service, coming from a family of teachers and public servants. He cares deeply about the issues the Wave story raises, including leaders/followers, critical thinking, human rights, and promoting responsible and positive behavior in our complex world and democracy. He has traveled to over 50 countries and all seven continents and is a licensed hot air balloon pilot.

Mark is a graduate of the month-long “International Seminar for Educators” program at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Center in Jerusalem and his memberships include: International Association of Genocide Scholars (life), Washington State Council for the Social Studies, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Seattle Holocaust Center for Humanity.