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Dr. Aaron McKain Consulting Services

Consulting, Audits, and Coaching

Consulting, Audits, and Coaching

For companies, schools, governments, 
policymakers, politicians,
and advocates. 

Simple.  Proven.  Bi-partisan.

All Dr. M expertise topics, including:

    • AI and Algorithms (and Privacy)
    • Disinformation and Political Division
    • Free Speech and Academic Freedom
    • Bi Partisan Coalition Building
    • Cross-Cultural  Debate and Dialogue 
    • Fixing Our Colleges
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    We all need help sometimes. And the post-digital world got super complicated.

    But the stakes are way too high for this to be your first rodeo.

    THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, ALLIES, AND CLIENTS

    EXPERTISE, STRATEGIES, SOLUTIONS

    Simple. Proven. Bipartisan. Scaleable.

    • AI ETHICS, DISINFORMATION, PRIVACY, AND FIRST AMENDMENT

      policy frameworks
      education platforms
      civic networks

      advocacy strategies
      and legal governance systems

    • BIPARTISAN POLITICAL COALITIONS (AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)

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

    • COLLEGE REFORM AND POST-AI EDUCATION

      Award-winning and internationally recognized higher ed leadership: Whether directing a school, partnering with a Fortune 500, or speechwriting for Time's University President of the Year.

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    TECHNOLGY LAW, POLICY, and CULTURE

    WHOEVER FIXES THIS CORRECTLY -- AND FIRST --
    WINS THE 21ST CENTURY.

    NO REASON IT CAN'T BE YOU.

    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.

    Speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year during his billion-dollar fundraising campaign

    As a grad student, co-built the first nationally scalable multi-campus disinformation fighting platform (w/ a Fortune 500) in 2007.

    I started a free speech art collective at one of 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.

    I've launched three start-ups to prove my students could fix higher education and post-digital America. As homework.

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

    Digital ethics is a complex ecosystem of code, culture, and Constitutional law. Whoever fixes it first (correctly) wins the 21st century and re-balances AI and humanity.

    The "experts" who got us into this mess are now trying to fix it, but they're doing it backwards.


    The clock is ticking. Learn why our proven, peer-reviewed, and 2,000 year old system works here.

    AI and Algorithms

    Disinformation and Political Division

    Privacy and Surveillance

    Free Speech vs. Hate Speech

    MANHATTAN PROJECT SPECS

    WHY THE IDH IS A SCALABLE BLUEPRINT TO WIN THE 21ST CENTURY

    One simple, holistic method for AI, disinformation, privacy, and free speech

    Bipartisan, non-ideological, Constitutional, innovation-friendly

    Teachable to anyone

    Usable across industries

    Scalable

    Able to re-connect citizens, governments, schools, and companies

    MANHATTAN PROJECT SPECS
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    PRIVACY and DIGITAL DIGNITY: STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS

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    AI and ALGORITHMS: STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS

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      AI and PRIVACY SOLUTIONS


      Executive Director & Co-Founder,
      The Institute for Digital Humanity

    • ALL THE AI LEGAL and POLICY SOLUTIONS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR:

      AI Risk Assessment

      Bias Assessment

      Analyze & Catalog your AI Ecosystem

      Create Trust Metrics

      Build your AI Management System

      Develop your AI Risk & Governance Program

      DR M AI STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS 

    • 20 YEARS OF PILOTING A SIMPLE, HOLSITIC, NON-PARTISAN, AND MULTI-INDUSTRY "META-METHOD"

      Currently powering what really might be the last Manhattan Project left standing after the election.

      GO TO THE IDH 

    • Dr. McKain's AI and Privacy Consulting Practice is Now Partnered With

      Pamela Gupta (TrustedAI) and Verdas Ventures (Dr. Allison Fisher (top 100 women in AI).

      for those clients wanting even more internationally-recognized expertise or bandwidth.

      DR M PRIVACY STRATEGIES and SOLUTIONS 
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    POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS

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    DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION

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    One simple method for disinformation and political division

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    Plug and play civic disinformation fighting networks

    CO-BUILT PROBABLY THE FIRST
    MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFORMATION FIGHTING PLATFORM:

    NETWORKING 15,000 STUDENTS, HUNDREDS OF CLASSROOMS, ACROSS MULTIPLE UNIVERSITIES.

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    Conflict resolution, cross-cultural conversations, and coalition building.


    CROSSED THE FILTER BUBBLE AND BECAME A DIGITAL ETHICS PROFESSOR / "DIVERSITY HIRE" AT A BIBLE COLLEGE     To try to rebuild our common reality and
    keep democracy from burning down.
    It worked.

    Influential and early scholarship

    ON POST-DIGITAL NEWS AND POLITICS:

    BUT SINCE I WAS WAY EARLY -- STARTED GRADUATE SCHOOL ON 9/11 TO STUDY POST-DIGITAL AMERICAN POLITICS AND JOURNALISM -- MOST OF MY EARLY WORK USES COMEDY TO EXPLAIN IT.

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    WE NEED TO START THE HARD WORK OF REBUILDING OUR SHARED REALITY AND DEMOCRACY.

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    AMERICANS WANT TO GET BACK TOGETHER. THEY JUST DON'T KNOW HOW.

    If you know someone else who got Evangelical Christians, Muslims, Jewish-Americans, SJWsand MAGAs to put their differences aside and work together to save the country, let me know so I can work for them.

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    DIGITAL ETHICS PROVIDES A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION BIPARTISAN REFERENDUM ON OUR SHARED CIVIC VALUES.

    Let me teach you how to leverage strategic and underused points of agreement that bridge filter bubbles.

    HIGHER ED INNOVATION & REFORM

    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.

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    COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

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    There is still time to fix education

    We have months (not years) to fix higher ed the correct way before we lose it -- and the 21st century -- forever.

    And I've spent two decades leading my corners of higher ed with the best solutions culled from Big 10 schools, small colleges ("woke" and MAGA-y), a Fortune 500, and two nationally-recognized university presidents (including Time's "University President of the Year" during a billion-dollar fundraising campaign.)



    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
    The Institute for Digital Humanity
    2018-present

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
    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.

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    THE FIRST AMENDMENT and DIGITAL FREE SPEECH

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    I speak post-digital/AI First Amendment law fluently -- along with higher education, artistic/academic free speech, encoded censorship, and DEI.

    THANK YOU TO PROFESSOR MARK BERKSON (FIRE'S "MARK BERKSON COURAGEOUS COLLEAGUE AWARD" NAMESAKE), the guy in the video:

    For acknowledging the IDH and IAA's groundbreaking First Amendment and academic freedom curriculum and governance systems at William-Mitchell's 2024 Academic Freedom Symposium (with Nadine Strossen and X.)

    20+ years as a leading professor and advocate, co-founder of two First Amendment orgs, curriculum development for three schools and a Fortune 500, headhunted to run national organizations.

    • FIRST AMENDMENT DETAILS


      The woke kids protest. The Bible kids pray. They are all the same kids to me. And I got them to be buddies because the problem -- go figure -- isn't the students.

    • THANK YOU TO PROFESSOR MARK BERKSON (FIRE'S "MARK BERKSON COURAGEOUS COLLEAGUE AWARD" NAMESAKE)

      For acknowledging the IDH and IAA's groundbreaking First Amendment and academic freedom curriculum and governance systems at William-Mitchell's 2024 Academic Freedom Symposium Nadine Strossen).

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      EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER

      Currently powering what really might be the last Manhattan Project left standing after the election. Beause we are the only one that always defended the First Amendment, always (duh) supported 'diversity' of all kinds (why else would we start this), and are the only AI group with a grasp on the DEI vs. 1A mess

      GO TO THE IDH 

    • CO-FOUNDER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR

      The Twin Cities based free speech think tank/art collective that started with a protest, ended up in an international juried art exhibition (first try), and specializes in using art to fight for artists' and academics' free speech.

      GO TO THE IAA 
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