CONSULTING I CURRICULUM I SPEAKING and TRAININGS I PLATFORMS & PARTNERSHIPS

EDUCATION STRATEGIES & SERVICES

20 years of proven solutions to empower our students, save our colleges, fix free speech, solve disinformation, win the AI race, and rebuild our shared reality.

Thank you to CBS news for acknowledging my students' efforts (and podcast)

MY STORY / ELEVATOR PITCH

I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher ed, AI, and post-digital
America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except we live in Minneapolis, some jerk tried to shoot me, and all hell broke loose.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT and HIGHER ED REFORM

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.

PR and FIXING OUR POLITICAL DIVISIONS

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

And, as a grad student,
co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500).

AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

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

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

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Connecting classrooms and colleges
across the political and cultural divide.

Training any/all students how to be leaders
in the fight to rebuild common reality
and reunite a broken America.

CURRICULUM:
 K-12 / COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW

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

There is still time to fix education

Whether working as a professor, a Director of a School, or a speechwriter for Time Magazine's  "University President of the Year," I've spent twenty years revolutionizing higher education.



EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

The Institute for Digital Humanity
2018-present


CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

2017-present


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, 2011-17


Speechwriter, Office of the President
The Ohio State University: 2007-2009


Co-Founder, Commonplace
McGraw-Hill and The Ohio State University: 2007-2011


COLLEGE / GRAD / LAW SCHOOL / K-12

Rethink post-AI education: Experiential, interactive, non-ideological, and public-facing.

Update your curriculum for the post-digital, post-AI, post-Gaza, post-Project 2025 world

Build revenue generating student/faculty run think tanks, arts advocacy organizations, and internal/external communications.

Revolutionize assessment to meet the new X and Y.

Catalyze and curate constructive campus dialogues across cultural, religious, and political divides.

Bring back free speech and respect for all students and faculty.

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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My Teaching / Education Reform Blueprint

Socratic, experiential, entrepreneurial, scalable.

  • MY STUDENTS BUILD INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ORGS. AS HOMEWORK.

    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

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  • WHAT I TEACH (ACROSS THE CAMPUS)

    The First Amendment
    Media Law / Technology Law
    Media Theory / Critical Digital Media Studies / Post-digital American Politics / Journalism; Public Relations / Pop Culture / Political Communication / Professional Communication (business, medical....

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  • AWARD-WINNING, SOCRATIC, AND NON-IDEOLOGICAL

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  • 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.

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PLUG and PLAY STUDENT RUN THINK TANKS

ART COLLECTIVES, JOURNALISM OUTLETS, PR and ADVOCACY FIRMS, and RESEARCH NETWORKS

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

Thank you to CBS news for acknowledging my students' efforts (and podcast)

THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
2018-PRESENT


www.theidh.org


INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
2017-PRESENT

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COMMONPLACE

CO-FOUNDER/DESIGNER
2007-2012

IDH TV / CIVIC INFORMATION DEFENSE NETWORKS

EMERGENCY SUPERVISOR
STUDENT NEWSPAPER
(NORTH CENTRAL U)
2020-2022

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY / NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY / HAMLINE UNIVERSITY / CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY / INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Student CVs

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.

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