- RESUME (.PDF)
- ACADEMIC CV (.PDF)
WHAT'S BELOW: - EDUCATION
- PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- PRESS & MEDIA
- RECENT AWARDS
- PUBLICATIONS
- INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS
- HOSTED WORKSHOPS
- ART EXHIBITIONS & CIVIC EVENTS
- ADVOCACY / ART INSTALLATIONS
- ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
- CURRICULUM
- START UPS AND PLATFORMS
DR MCKAIN VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS / CV
NEWS and MEDIA
CBS WCCO: MINNEAPOLIS
FORBES
NBC KARE-11: MINNEAPOLIS
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
NBC: TOLEDO, HOUSTON, SACREMENTO
HUMAN LAWYER
PIONEER PRESS
NEXT GENERATION POLITICS
AI & YOU
OUR BLACK NEWSAG NEWS
OMAHA DAILY RECORD
SLOAN FILM SUMMIT
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
DAILY NEBRASKAN
MY TEAMS' RECENT AWARDS
and RECOGNITIONS
EDUCATION
RESEARCH and DEVELOPMENT
TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY
AI / DISINFORMATION / PRIVACY
FIRST AMENDMENT / FREE SPEECH
POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS and CULTURE
DEPROGRAMMING POSTMODERNISM
PUBLIC HEALTH / MENTAL HEALTH
CHRONIC ILLNESS / TRAUMA / POST-FACT SCIENCE

Biased and incorrect AI and algorithms are destroying lives. The IDH knows how to help AI regulators without hurting innovation.
Click here for the IDH's
AI Ethics victories and solutions.

We fix the root cause, by re-finding common values across ideological, religious, and cultural “filter bubbles."
Click here for the IDH's
disinformation victories and services.

The privacy crisis is scaring the hell out of IDH students
on both sides of the aisle.
Click here for the IDH's
privacy victories and solutions.

It's easy to be for free speech
and against hate and online violence:
Just remember that context
is a civil rights issue.
And stop thinking like a robot
Click here for the IDH's
free speech victories and solutions.
EDUCATION INITIATIVES
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
North Central University
School of English, Communications, and Digital Media
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Hamline University
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media
CONSULTANT / CURRICULUM DESIGNER
McGraw-Hill / Anti-Defamation League
SPEECHWRITER
The Ohio State University
Office of the President
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).
PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS
SCHOOLS / POLICYMAKERS / ADVOCATES /
COMPANIES / STUDENTS
Training any/all professionals or citizen groups
how to be AI ethics and policy leaders.
PLUG and PLAY PLATFORMS
CONNECTING DIVERSE VOICES ACROSS CAMPUSES
AND THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Connecting classrooms and colleges
across the political and cultural divide.
SCALABLE SOLUTIONS
ADVOCACY and CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

CO-FOUNDER / EXEC DIRECTOR
The Institute for Digital Humanity
2019-PRESENT
CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
2017-PRESENT
CO-FOUNDER
Commonplace
Ohio State University and McGraw-Hill
2007-2011
PROGRAM ASSOCIATE
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law
in the Public Interest
1997-2001

STRATEGIC PR, MEDIA CAMPAIGNS,
and CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING
Translating digital ethics’ complexities
into a language your grandma would understand
Triangulating bipartisan multi-faith
and cross-cultural coalitions and agreements

CIVIC FORUMS and COMMUNITY EDUCATION
EVERYONE ACTUALLY WELCOME
Designed to catalyze allegedly impossible
cross-cultural conversations,
curate community voices,
and protect our most vulnerable
post-digital citizens.

ART EXHIBITIONS
LOCAL / INTERNATIONAL / JURIED
"Digital Rights Are Civil Rights"
International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum
In Celebration of Minneapolis' Facial Recognition Ban
Minneapolis and Online. February 2021.
w/ ACLU MN,
Safety Not Surveillance,
Minneapolis City Councilman Steve Lucero,
The Little Earth Native Youth Art Collective,
and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Thank you to our partners
and hundreds of artists
from around the world for making these
critical exhibitions possible
for our communities.
ARTS ADVOCACY

ACLU MINNESOTA
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
PROTECT MINNESOTA
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
URBAN EDUCATORS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE FACTORY
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY