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.

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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.

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  • Given the urgency of our post-AI world, Dr. McKain is offering deeply discounted rates for non-profits, schools, and advocates and charging market rates for companies to subsidize those efforts.

TECHNOLOGY LAW, CULTURE, POLITICS & POLICY

ai ethics | disinformation | privacy I free speech vs. online hate

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EXPERTISE OVERVIEW

ai ethics | disinformation | privacy I free speech vs. online hate

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20 years of piloting a simple, holistic, non-partisan AI ethics Manhattan Project

AI Ethics is the greatest challenge and opportunity you are facing. Which AI ethicists are you going to trust?

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.

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ALL THE AI ETHICS AND LEGAL 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

AI/PRIVACY RESEARCH & VICTORIES

FIRST AMENDMENT & FREE SPEECH

academic & artistic freedom I encoded censorship

THE FIRST AMENDMENT / ACADEMIC FREEDOM

I speak higher education, First Amendment law, & digital political ethics fluently.

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.

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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 (with Nadine Strossen.)

RECENT VICTORIES

Click below or visit the Institue for Digital Humanity 1st's Amendment initiative or the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.

DR. M'S FIRST AMENDMENT RESEARCH AND VICTORIES

DISINFORMATION & POLITICAL DIVISION

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

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2018:
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.

2006:
CO-BUILT PROBABLY THE FIRST
MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFORMATION FIGHTING PLATFORM

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

2005:
INFLUENTIAL 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.

HIGHER EDUCATION 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.

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

TEACHING: SOCRATIC AND NON-IDEOLOGICAL

EXPERIENTIAL: NEVER TAUGHT THE SAME CLASS TWICE

I dissolved 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 goner.

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/civil coalitions, and military-grade civilian information defense systems.

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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.

STRATEGIC PR | CREATIVE ADVOCACY | BIPARTISAN & CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING

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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.

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