Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL

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

WHOEVER FIXES IT FIRST WINS THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • 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

SEE ALL NEWS APPEARANCES

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

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    The "Manhattan Project"

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    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

    Stop guessing what the "other team" is thinking. Or fighting about stuff you actually agree on, whether you are in Congress or just trying to have Thanksgiving with your family.

    This is a disinformation war.

    PR and ADVOCACY SOLUTIONS

    STRATEGIC ARTS ADVOCACY

    Because art works when nothing else does.

    Juried and grant-funded national and international exhibitions, installations,
    and civic forums.

    ART EXHIBITIONS and INSTALLATIONS

    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

    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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    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 / 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

    ART INSTALLATIONS / EXHIBITIONS

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