Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL

THIS IS A CRISIS OF CODE, CULTURE, and CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.

WHOEVER FIXES IT FIRST WINS THE 21ST CENTURY.

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  • AI , DISINFORMATION, PRIVACY, AND FIRST AMENDMENT

    policy frameworks
    education platforms
    civic networks

    advocacy strategies
    legal governance systems


  • BIPARTISAN POLITICAL COALITIONS (AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)

    Two decades of working with ALL students, advocates, lawmakers, and experts to get people programmed to hate each other to remember that they don't.


  • COLLEGE REFORM AND POST-AI EDUCATION

    Award-winning higher ed leadership: Whether directing a school, teaching students how to build internationally-recognized think tanks as homework, or speechwriting for Time's University President of the Year.

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PRESS and MEDIA

CBS: MINNEAPOLIS
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

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THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, CLIENTS,
and STUDENTS

for putting differences aside and fighting together
for a just, free, and sane digital world.

EXPERTISE and SERVICES

  • YUP, A MANHATTAN PROJECT

    I've launched three start ups to prove my teams and students could fix/"align" AI, disinformation, privacy, free speech, and higher ed.

    and the last crew were early/good enough/on track to pull it off, except out city went haywire (#Minneapolis) and some asshat tried to shoot me.

  • HIGHER ED REFORM / FREE SPEECH / ARTS and CULTURE

    I started an internationally-recognized free speech art collective at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

    and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
    at a Bible College     to teach kids on the other side of reality how to build a Manhattan Project for AI/disinformation.

  • AI / DISINFORMATION / PRIVACY

    I have a unique interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

    technology,
    Constitutional law, American democracy, postmodernism    ,
    and post-AI education.

    (#GoBucks)

  • PR / POLITICAL COALITIONS / MULTI-INDUSTRY PLATFORMS

    I was a speechwriter for Time's "Top College President" during their billion-dollar fundraising campaign.

    And, as a grad student,
    co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500) in 2005, using 2,000 year old solutions.

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20 years of actual solutions to rebuild reality, bring divided communities back together (via civil conversations), and network citizens to combat disinformation.

Strategies, hacks, frameworks, and pep talks to analyze disinformation; start to rebuild our shared reality; and heal our communities, classrooms, companies, and country.

DISINFO/POLITICAL DIVISION VICTORIES and SOLUTIONS

20 YEARS OF PROVEN AND AWARD-WINNING SOLUTIONS.

WHICH IS WHY EVEN AI KNOWS WE'RE THE LAST MANHATTAN PROJECT STANDING.

Everyone is doing AI ALIGNMENT backward.

Doing it the right way
wins the 21st century.

And we've been piloting a simple, holistic, non-partisan AI policy, law, and governance system for 20 years.

AI ETHICS VICTORIES and SOLUTIONS
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REPORTED IN FORBES

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theoryto Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 


Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue
on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. 
Paris, France.  May 2022. Invited.

PRIVACY VICTORIES and SOLUTIONS

FIRST AMENDMENT & ACADEMIC FREEDOM

CREATIVE DIR / PROFESSOR / ARTIST / EXEC DIRECTOR / COLLEGE 1A WARS SURVIVOR

I speak 21st century First Amendment law -- DEI, AI, higher ed, cancel culture, and encoded censorship -- fluently.

And have the scars and solutions to prove it.

FIRST AMENDMENT SOLUTIONS

HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP & REFORM

CURRICULUM / PLATFORMS

STUDENT THINK TANKS & ORGS / WORKSHOPS

SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING

My teams and I -- whether from a Bible college or one of the "wokest" schools in America -- are living proof of the best and worst of higher education and how to fix it (for everyone) in the post-AI/DEI/disinformation world.

EDUCATION SERVICES

PR & BIPARTISAN COALITION BUILDING

CAMPAIGNS / MESSAGING / WORKSHOPS
SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING / CIVIC FORUMS

I spent my career working with the left and right to get them to work together. And spent the last six years on "both sides" of reality.

I know why/where our wires got crossed, where the landmines/opportunities are buried, and how to get humans re-connected.

PR and ADVOCACY SOLUTIONS
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ARTS AND CULTURAL INITIATIVES

ART EXHIBITIONS

  • CONTAMINATED
    CONTAMINATED
  • Y2K16: SURVIVING THE DIGITAL APOCALYPSE
    Y2K16: SURVIVING THE DIGITAL APOCALYPSE
  • CELLULAR HOME INVASION
    CELLULAR HOME INVASION
  • DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
    DIGITAL RIGHTS ARE CIVIL RIGHTS
  • ALL BULLETS SHATTER
    ALL BULLETS SHATTER
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THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, CLIENTS,
and STUDENTS

for putting differences aside and fighting together
for a just, free, and sane digital world.

EDUCATION: K-LAW

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE
HUD COMMUNITY
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

BYTES MEDIA
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MCGRAW-HILL
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN:
LA CROSSE
HAIFA UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERISTY

TRAININGS and WORKSHOPS

ACLU MN
ASEMBLIES OF GOD
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION


MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER
MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
ACLU NE

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ELECTED OFFICIALS

SEN. SCOTT LUCERO
(R-MN)
COUNCILMAN TRAUTMANN
(D-RICHFIELD)
COUNCILWOMAN VETAW
(D-MINNEAPOLIS)
COUNCILWOMAN YANG
(D-ST. PAUL)
COUNCILMAN FLETCHER
(D-MINNEAPOLIS)
SEN. PEGGY SCOTT
(R-MN)
COUNCILMAN WARSAME

(D -MINNEAPOLIS)

SEN. SCOTT JENSEN
(R-MN)

ART INSTALLATIONS and EXHIBITIONS

CZONG MUSEUM FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
MN ARTS BOARD
TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST
NORTHERN SPARK ARTS FESTIVAL
MISSOURI REVIEW
HAMLINE MIDWAY ARTS FESTIVAL
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK 
ELY CENTER

NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
PROJECT PROJECT 
MINNEAPOLIS ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
BAD ART VIDEO FESTIVAL
UNIV. OF MN INSTITUTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT 
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

SERVICES & STRATEGIES

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

AI / Disinformation / Privacy

Free Speech / Academic Freedom

Bipartisan and cross-cultural coalition building, campaigns, and civic strategies

Higher ed leadership and reform

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

Speaking

Consulting and Audits

Curriculum: K-12 / College / Grad / Law

Trainings and Workshops

Strategic PR, Arts Advocacy, and Civic Engagement

Scalable Solutions: Plug and play governance, education, and civics platforms

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