Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL

Executive Director/Co-Founder:
The Institute for Digital Humanity

Creative Director/Co-Founder:
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

Visiting Scholar:
Indiana University


AI ETHICS / PRIVACY / DISINFORMATION / FREE SPEECH

20 years of proven solutions to help schools, companies, citizens, and governments live in a just, free, and sane post-digital world.

And probably the only prof who left liberal higher education, crossed the filter bubble, and took a gig at a Bible college to try to stop a digital civil war.

FORBES
NBC: MINNEAPOLIS
(SACREMENTO, TOLEDO, HOUSTON)
HUMAN LAWYER
OMAHA-WORLD HERALD
PIONEER PRESS
NEBRASKA PUBLIC TELEVISION
NEXT GENERATION POLITICS
AI AND YOU / OUR BLACK NEWS

WHY MY SOLUTIONS WORK

AND MY STUDENTS AND TEAMS PUNCH WAY ABOVE THEIR WEIGHT CLASS

20 YEARS OF PROVEN R & D

Currently powering two award winning start-ups. Used in maybe the first multi-campus disinformation platform

Scalable as a legit AI Ethics Manhattan Project for any company, school, or government that wants to try solve the AI crisis / fix our colleges / save our democracy and/or win the 21st century.

My expertise:

AI / Disinformation / Privacy

Free Speech / Academic Freedom

Bipartisan coalitions building and cross-cultural civic strategies

Higher ed leadership and reform

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FOR COMPANIES, SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENTS, ADVOCATES, LAWYERS, and COMMUNITIES

Speaking

Consulting and Audits

Curriculum: K-12 / College / Grad / Law

Trainings and Workshos

Strategic PR, Arts Advocacy, and Civic Engagement

Scalable solutions: Plug and play governance, education, and civics platforms.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

CO-FOUNDER

Internationally recognized student-founded / expert led
bipartisan and multifaith digital ethics think tank.

tech ethics

THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

CO-FOUNDED


Internationally recognized free speech art collective.

Founded while I was a First Amendment prof at a famously woke liberal arts school.

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BIPARTISAN POLITICAL COALITIONS /
CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS

Including getting conservative, liberal, Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Americans to work together on AI ethics, disinformation, privacy, and free speech.

COLLEGE REFORM
AND POST-AI EDUCATION

Award-winning and internationally recognized higher ed leadership:

Whether directing a school, partnering with a Fortune 500, or speechwriting for Time's University President of the Year.

SERVICES and SOLUTIONS

FOR SCHOOLS, COMPANIES, GOVERNMENTS, ADVOCATES, ATTORNEYS, ARTISTS, AND CITIZENS

CURRICULUM / PLATFORMS / STUDENT THINK TANKS and ORGS
WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING and AUDITS

Empowering the next generation of tech leaders
from both sides of the aisle.

Fueled by 20 years of proven solutions
to fix education in the post-AI world.

CONSULTING / COACHING / AUDITS
SCALABLE GOVERNANCE PLATFORMS

A simple, holistic, non-partisan
technology policy, law, and governance system.

Now partnered with top experts and powering scalable platforms
that can network companies, schools, governments,
and citizens.

STRATEGIC PR / MEDIA CAMPAIGNS / CIVIC EDUCATION/ ART EXHIBITIONS / SCALABLE SOLUTIONS

Catalyzing allegedly impossible bipartisan and cross-cultural
coalitions and civic community conversations.

CURRICULUM (K-COLLEGE, GRAD, AND LAW) / EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PLATFORMS / PLUG and PLAY STUDENT THINK TANKS and ORGS
WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING and AUDITS


CLICK FOR EDUCATION SERVICES

THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, STUDENTS, ALLIES, CLIENTS, ARTISTS, and VOLUNTEERS

FOR PUTTING DIFFERENCES ASIDE AND PROVING THAT ALL AMERICANS CAN STILL COME TOGETHER TO WORK FOR A JUST, FREE, AND SANE DIGITAL WORLD.

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ACLU MN
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
ASEMBLIES OF GOD
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD
COMMUNITY

BYTES MEDIA
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE ACLU NE
MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION
CIVIC NEBRASKA
URBAN EDUCATORS
MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER
MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES


OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY

MCGRAW-HILL
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN:
LA CROSSE
HAIFA UNIVERSITY

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION

SEN. SCOTT LUCERO (R-MN) COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN (D-RICHFIELD)
COUNCILWOMAN LATRISHA VETAW (D-MINNEAPOLIS) COUNCILWOMAN NANCYYANG (D-ST. PAUL)
COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER (D-MINNEAPOLIS)
SEN. PEGGY SCOTT (R-MN)
COUNCILMAN WARSAME
(D -MINNEAPOLIS)
SEN. SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN)