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 LAW and POLICY / 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.

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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DISINFORMATION
AI LAW & POLICY
FREE SPEECH PRIVACY


CO-FOUNDER / EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY


The internationally recognized and award-winning "unicorn" digital ethics think tank everyone is looking for.

Co-founded w/ my students when I became and 'echo chamber diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to fix America. It worked.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT


CO-FOUNDER /
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY


Internationally recognized free speech art collective.

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

Headhunted to run national civil rights organizations. But, uh, where were they the last 20 years?

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DIGITAL POLITICS: ANALYSIS, STRATEGY, AND RESULTS

BUILDING ALLEGEDLY "IMPOSSIBLE" BIPARTISAN and CROSS-CULTURAL COALITIONS / PR and ADVOCACY /
CIVIL CIVIC CONVERSATIONS

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

Anyone else do that?

HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERSHIP: 20 YEARS OF PROVEN RESULTS

AWARD-WINNING, GAME CHANGING, REVENUE-GENERATING STRATEGIES FOR THE CLASSROOMS AND THE BOARDROOM

Whether directing a school, partnering with a Fortune 500 on the first multi-campus disinformation fighting network, speechwriting for Time's University President of the Year, or teaching a dozen students how to run circles around the Ivies for 100k

SEE ALL VICTORIES AND MY CV HERE

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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SERVICES AND STRATEGIES

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.

EDUCATION SERVICES, STRATEGIES, AND VICTORIES

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.

RESEARCH SERVICES, STRATEGIES, AND VICTORIES

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

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

ADVOCACY SERVICES, STRATEGIES, AND VICTORIES

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

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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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EDUCATION: K-LAW SCHOOL

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

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

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION

POLITICAL COALITION BUILDING

ACLU MN
ASEMBLIES OF GOD
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE


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


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

(D -MINNEAPOLIS)

SEN. SCOTT JENSEN (R-MN)

ART INSTALLATIONS / EXHIBITIONS

JURIED/GRANT-FUNDED
LOCAL, NATIONAL, INTERNATINOAL

CZONG MUSEUM FOR
CONTEMPORARY ART
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
MN ARTS BOARD
TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST
NORTHERN SPARK ARTS FESTIVAL
MISSOURI REVIEW
HAMLINE MIDWAY ARTS FESTIVAL
FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK 
ELY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
PROJECT PROJECT 
MINNEAPOLIS ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL
BAD ART VIDEO FESTIVAL
UNIV. OF MN INSTITUTE ON THE ENVIRONMENT 
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY