EDUCATION STRATEGIES and SERVICES

CONSULTING I CURRICULUM I SPEAKING and TRAININGS I PLATFORMS & PARTNERSHIPS

20 YEARS OF PROVEN SOLUTIONS:

TO EMPOWER OUR STUDENTS, SAVE OUR COLLEGES, FIX FREE SPEECH, SOLVE DISINFORMATION,
WIN THE AI RACE
and
REBUILD OUR DEMOCRACY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY


CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

THE INSTITUTE FOR AETHETIC ADVOCACY

Because, brother, I invented higher ed Space Mountain: My underdog students run laps around the Ivies and our cv is so big we call her Crowd Size.

I've taught on both sides of reality, been in that cold adjunct basement and those tippy top ivory towers. I already have all the shiny AI, Free Speech, and Disinformation Title Belts these Johnny-come-lately jobbers are looking for.

And my 20 year proven blueprint to save education, deprogram postmodernism,
and win the 21st century for everyone
is so so fast and so so pretty
all you're going to be $aying is Woo!

“How Do We Reoccupy Shared Reality?"

Next Generation Politics
May 4, 2023
w/ Richard Leyva and Phillip Graham

SEE ALL PRESS HERE

SPEAKING EVENTS

SCHOOLS / COMPANIES / COMMUNITIES

READ MY STORY HERE
BOOKING / MORE INFO
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DIRECTOR/ASSOC. PROF
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATONS, AND DIGITAL MEDIA

north central university, 2018-23


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

DIVISION OF ENGLISH AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS

hamline university, 2018-23

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and 20 years of college leadership exp.) in putting out the dumpster fire collision between

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

I was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year during his 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 2007.

My First Amendment cred is unimpeachable: I started a free speech art collective at the wokest school in America

and then left "liberal higher ed" and became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

Brass tacks: I could have been a University Prez (and am asked to run for office). Instead, I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher education and post-digital America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except some jerk tried to shoot me / all hell broke loose.

20 YEARS OF PROVEN SOLUTIONS:

TO EMPOWER OUR STUDENTS, SAVE OUR COLLEGES, FIX FREE SPEECH, SOLVE DISINFORMATION,
WIN THE AI RACE
and
REBUILD OUR DEMOCRACY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY


CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

THE INSTITUTE FOR AETHETIC ADVOCACY

20 YEARS OF PROVEN SOLUTIONS TO FIX HIGHER EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE

CURRICULUM / PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
K -12 / COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW SCHOOL

Interactive, experiential, and non-ideological
digital ethics, civics, and free speech education.

IDH EDUCATION SERVICES

CURRICULUM:
 K-12 / COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW

Training students how to be AI ethics and policy leaders
in the race to win the 21st century
(and fight for post-digital humanity).

IDH CURRICULUM SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
SCHOOLS / POLICYMAKERS / ADVOCATES /
COMPANIES / STUDENTS

MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
ACLU MINNESOTA
TUALATIN VALLEY CREATES
LEWIS AND CLARK UNIVERSITY
 LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY

Training any/all professionals or citizen groups
how to be AI ethics and policy leaders.

IDH TRAINING SERVICES

PLUG and PLAY PLATFORMS

CONNECTING DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS CAMPUSES
AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE


Connecting classrooms and colleges
across the political and cultural divide.

IDH PLATFORM SERVICES

Curriculum: K-12 I Undergraduate I Graduate and Professional I Law

Empowering a new generation of leaders from across the aisle.

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The solutions to fix AI, our political, division, the free speech crisis and our colleges aren't rocket science.

But an interdisciplinary phd in post-digital law, culture, and politics (and a 'universal use' methodology that lays a dead neutral ground wire from Ancient Greece to this sentence you are reading) -- at the top school in the world for both analysis and building systems to fix education -- helps.

rhetorical theory

TEACHING: SOCRATIC / NON-IDEOLOGICAL

EXPERIENTIAL: NEVER TAUGHT THE SAME CLASS TWICE

SCALABLE PLATFORMS (TO LAUNCH AND NETWORK THINK TANKS, NEWS OUTLETS, ART COLLECTIVES, ADVOCACY/PR ORGS, ED TECH START UPS, PODCASTS, INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOKS, UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL/CIVIC COALITIONS, AND MILITARY-GRADE CIVILIAN INFORMATION DEFENSE SYSTEMS AS HOMEWORK)

INNOVATIVE, 20 YEARS PROVEN, AND AI-PROOF FACULTY AND STUDENT ASSESSMENT/MANAGEMENT/ EMPOWERMENT STRATEGIES

experiential learning (always)

asssiant professor/ associate professor / instructor

TEACHING: SOCRATIC AND NON-IDEOLOGICAL

EXPERIENTIAL: NEVER TAUGHT THE SAME CLASS TWICE

I DISOLVED THE FALSE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE 'CLASSROOM' AND 'REAL WORLD -- AND 'HOMEWORK' AND 'WORK' -- 20 YEARS AGO.

ANYONE STILL USING A STATIC SYLLABUS -- OR TEACHING THE SAME THING MORE THAN ONCE -- IS A GONNER.

SCALALBE PLATFORMS: BUILDING AWARD-WINNING / INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ORGS. AS HOMEWORK.

TO LAUNCH AND NETWORK THINK TANKS, NEWS OUTLETS, ART COLLECTIVES, ADVOCACY/PR ORGS, ED TECH START UPS, PODCASTS, INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOKS, UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL/CIVIC COALITIONS, AND MILITARY-GRADE CIVILIAN INFORMATION DEFENSE SYSTEMS

DIRECTOR/ASSOC. PROF
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, COMMUNICATONS, AND DIGITAL MEDIA

north central university, 2018-23


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

DIVISION OF ENGLISH AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS

hamline university, 2018-23

SPEECHWRITER
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
the ohio state university, 2007-2009

CONSULTANT,

socratic teaching (always)

asssiant professor/ associate professor / instructor

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STUDENT VICTORIES / SCALABLE SOLUTIONS

For instance, my students built this internationally recognized, non-partisan digital ethics think tank as homework (for, like, $100k) and it has its own education division

The Institute for Digital Humanity

hamline university: 2011-2017 / iaa: 2017-present

Co-Founded Twin Cities' free speech and digital civil rights art collective: Internationally recognized exhibitions, installations, and cutting-edge civic engagemenet frameworks/events.

IDH PRESS / VICTORIES
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Commonplace

A Citizen's Guide to Persuasion (For An Age That Desperately Needs One)

ohio state university / mcgraw-hill : 2007-2011

Co-founded likely the first multi-campus disinformation fighting network: Connecting hundreds of classrooms, thousands of students, and several colleges. Designed to scale for millions. Corporate weasels screwed it up.

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The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

hamline university: 2011-2017 / iaa: 2017-present

Co-Founded Twin Cities' free speech and digital civil rights art collective: Internationally recognized exhibitions, installations, and cutting-edge civic engagemenet frameworks/events.

IAA Exhibitions/Victories
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thank you to my students

PRESS / MEDIA APPEARANCES

“After Facebook Scandal, Students Take On Issues of Big Tech.” 
NBC KARE-11 Evening News.  
Minneapolis: 7 October 2021. 

Rebroadcast On:
NBC WTOL: Toledo
NBC KHOU: Houston
NBC KXTV: Sacramento.

“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News. 
Minneapolis: 13 September 2018.

PUBLICATIONS

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
February 2023
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
February 2023

“A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics."
Nebraska Lawyer. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.  
Sept/Oct 2022.  

“WandaVision Exposes the Reality that Our Filter Bubbles Control Our Minds.”
Hannah Grubbs.
Popular Culture and Theology. 
September 22, 2021.

“WandaVision: An Intersectional Perspective on the Erasure of Jewish Identity.” 
Joe Cobb. 
Blerg.com. 
April 18th, 2021.  

“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.” 
PostHuman: New Media Art 2020. 
With Steven Pederson and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
CICA Press:
Seoul, South Korea: 2020.

“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.” 
Nebraska Lawyer.
With Thomas Freeman and
Samson Hall.
May/June 2020.  

“In Two Voices.” 
Amanda Aherns, Aaron McKain, and Stephen Pederson. 
Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020. 

“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision Making.” 
Thomas Freeman, Aaron McKain, and Samson Hall. 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020.

“Post-Digital Free Speech.” 
Curated Cross-Cultural Zine Exchange. 
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Hennepin County Library.
(Permanent Collection).  September 2019.

“I Want to Party With You Cowboy: Stephen Colbert and Campaign 2016’s Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness.”
With Thomas Lawson.
In Julie Webber-Collins, Ed. 
The Joke is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times.
Lexington Press, 2019. 

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS

Invited Academic Conferences
and Presentations:

“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU. 
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

Winner of online voting competition to present.

“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
 International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
  Chicago: DePaul University. 
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda
Aherns. 
October 2021.

“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium.
With Dr. Aaron McKain, Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez.
Creighton University. 
Omaha, NE.
  October 2021. 

“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
  OSTROM Workshop. 
Indiana University School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. 
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan.
February 2021.

“Racist Robots?  A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
  With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales. 
March 2020.

CIVIC VICTORIES

Art Exhibitions and Civic Forums

Art Exhibitions 

and Civic Forums
juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international exhibitions

“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.” Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum. 
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022.  With the Institute for Digital Humanity; Institute for Aesthetic
Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State,
Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.  

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”  Juried International Art Exhibition and Community
Education Event.  Minneapolis MN and Online: February 2021. With the Institute for Digital Humanity,
Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher. 

“Contaminated.”  International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum.  Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2020.
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With Allison Baker, the
Institute for Digital Humanity, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  St. Cloud Zine Fest.  St. Cloud, MN. 
February 2020.

“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With the Institute for  Digital Humanity, 

and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  Twin Cities Zine Fest.  Minneapolis, MN.  September 2020.


“Hopeful Women.”  Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism.  Hamline University.  Saint Paul, MN.  Dec
2018.

“World Press Freedom Day: What Do You Have to Say,” Student Art Installation on Free Speech.  Hamline
University.  Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.

“Y2K16.” Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics. Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2016.

“dronesTruck: Operation Como.” Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition. Saint Paul, MN. May 2016.

“School Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Student Art Installation on School Shootings.  Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2015.

COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Competitive Academic
Conferences And Workshops:



“The Art of EMF Science: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Post-Digital Health Advocacy.”  Rhetoric of Health And 

Medicine Conference.  With Stephen Pedersen and Allison Baker.  Online: October 2020.  

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”  International Society for the Study of
Narrative.  With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel .New Orleans, LA.  March 2020.  

“Unsound Methods?” Panel and Multimedia Performance.  Rhetoric Society of America. With Cory Holding, Matt
Sumera, Josh Gumiela, Allison Baker, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. Minneapolis, MN, May 2018.

 “Sustaining Well-Being in an Electromagnetic Environment: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Brooke Wallington. 
National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Memphis, TN. April 2017.

 "Post-Postmodern Identity Performance and the Digital World, Or: How to Keep Up With the Kardashians.”
Hannah Kolbeck.  National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.

“Pop Will Erase Itself: Music Criticism & Culture after the Digital Turn.”  Tommy Lawson. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.