Chicago native William Hayashi is a four decade veteran of the IT
industry, an award-winning screen writer and a novelist.
His Darkside Trilogy answers the question: What would happen in America
if African Americans were discovered secretly living on the backside of
the moon since before Neil Armstrong landed?
Hayashi's first four scripts were made into movies. The first, Fallout,
written for the 2009 International 48 Hour Film Project, won for Best
Script in Chicago.
He is also the host of the weekly Genesis Science Fiction Radio series,
an online show for the BlackScienceFictionSociety.com web site. Hayashi
interviews notable creators of Black science fiction and fantasy
novels, comics, films and other Black-oriented content.
Hayashi spends much of his time in philanthropy building and
maintaining computer labs and networks for not-for-profits. He served
as Board Chair of Cabrini Green Youth And Family Services, a social
service agency in Chicago, and was honored in 2001 by Illinois'
Department of Children and Family Services for having brought Best
Business Practices to the Social Service Agency Model.