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DR M'S CV, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, and VICTORIES

DR M'S CV, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, and VICTORIES

CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
2018-PRESENT

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR / DIRECTOR
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, DIGITAL MEDIA, AND COMMUNICATION ARTS
2018-2023

CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
2017-PRESENT

FOUNDER / ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DIVISION OF RHETORIC AND DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS
2011-2017

SPEECHWRITER / OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
2007-2009

CO-FOUNDER / DESIGNER
COMMONPLACE
2007-2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

WHAT'S BELOW:

  • PRESS & MEDIA
  • EDUCATION
  • PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
  • START UPS AND PLATFORMS
  • RESEARCH: PUBS & TALKS
  • EDUCATION INITIATIVES
  • ADVOCACY INITIATIVES
  • ART INITIATIVES

PRESS & 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 NEWS
AG NEWS
OMAHA DAILY RECORD
SLOAN FILM SUMMIT
LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR
DAILY NEBRASKAN

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CURRENT GIGS

CO-FOUNDER / EXEC DIRECTOR
The Institute for Digital Humanity
2019-PRESENT

CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
2017-PRESENT


VISITING SCHOLAR
OSTROM WORKSHOP

Indiana University
2019-PRESENT

DIRECTOR / ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

North Central University
2018-2023
School of English, Communications,
and Digital Media

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Hamline University
2011-2017
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media

SPEECHWRITER

The Ohio State University
Office of the President
2007-2009


GRADUATE FELLOW
INSTRUCTOR
WRITING PROGRAM ASSOC.
ASST. EDITOR:
NARRATIVE
THE DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECT (ASSOC.)

The Ohio State University
2001-2010


EARLY DAYS

PROGRAM ASSOCIATE
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest
1997-2001


PAC COORDINATOR
Nebraskans For Peace

1998


GEN X DREAM JOB
Homer's Records and Gifts
1997-1999

START UPS and FOUNDED ORGANIZATIONS

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    THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY


    CO-FOUNDER/EXEC. DIRECTOR
    2018-PRESENT

    Started when I became an echo-chamber diversity hre at a Bible college to prove my methods could get conservatives, liberals, Christians, Muslims, and Jewish-Americans to work together on sane and pragmatic technology solutions.

    VISIT THE IDH 
  • THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY


    CO-FOUNDER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
    2017-PRESENT


    The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy is a thriving Twin-Cities art collective that catalyzes and curate allegedly “impossible” cross-cultural and multi-faith conversations on technology, misinformation, identify politics, and public/mental health.

    VISIT THE IAA 
  • COMMONPLACE
    (MCGRAW-HILL & OHIO STATE)


    CO-FOUNDER/DESIGNER
    2007-2012

    The Commonplace project – a partnership between McGraw-Hill and Ohio State’s First Year Writing Program – networked approximately 15,000 students across 5 campuses and 100s of classrooms, generating $750k in revenue.


    MORE ON COMMOPLACE 
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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. and M.S.L.
    (Masters in the Study of Law)

    The Ohio State University 2012

    Focus: Digital Culture, Law,  & Politics
    Unique interdisciplinary joint program between the Dept. of English and Moritz College of Law.


    Dissertation: "Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age"



    ACADEMIC CV 
  • M.A. English
    (Narrative Theory and Law)

    The Ohio State University 2005


    B.A. Political Science
    B.A. English
    Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln 1998


    Minors:
    Conflict Resolution, History, International Affairs

    Graduated w/Distinction
    Phi Beta Kappa

    Training: China/US politics,
    postmodernism, free speech

  • I'm not a genius, but I was trained by a pile of them.

    In the early 2000s, my mentor was leading one of the top schools in the world for narrative theory.

    My law prof was the old school ACLU lawyer/executive director who defended the Nazis in Skokie.

    My other mentor "invented" (as a diagnosis) postmodernism.

    My other profs were all top in their fields for my side hustles.

    #GoBucks

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RESEARCH: PUBS and TALKS

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  • RECENT AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

    REPORTED IN FORBES
    TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
    ON HUMANITY AND AI
    REGULATION

    RUNNER-UP: BEST PAPER
    INTERNATIONAL VINCENTIAN
    BUSINESS ETHICS
    CONFERENCE
    (2022)

    WINNER: BEST PAPER AWARD
    MIDWEST ACADEMY
    FOR LEGAL STUDIES IN BUSINESS
    (2020)

  • PUBLICATIONS


    WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW
    NEBRASKA LAWYER
    GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
    MCGRAW HILL
    INTIMA: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE MEDICINE
    HAMPTON PRESS
    CICA PRESS
    LEXINGTON PRESS
    COMPETITION POLICY INTERNATIONAL
    WILEY-BLACKWELL

  • INVITED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

    TRANSATLANTIC DIALOGUE
    ON HUMANITY AND AI
    REGULATION
    DATA, LAW & ETHICS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
    MIDWEST ACADEMY OF LEGAL STUDIES
    IN BUSINESS
    HEIDER BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    NORTH CAROLINA AT & T
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    DREW UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY CENTER
    FOR JUSTICE & LAW

  • COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

    AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF LAW, CULTURE, AND THE HUMANITIES
    HUBER HURST RESEARCH SEMINAR
    RHETORIC OF HEALTH
    AND MEDICINE CONFERENCE
    RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
    INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY
    FOR THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE
    COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION
    THOMAS R. WATSON CONFERENCE
    ON RHETORIC
    EDWARD G. HAYES RESEARCH
    FORUM
    US. NAVAL ACADEMY

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PUBLICATIONS: FOR THE PUBLIC & INDUSTRY

"Principles of Digital Law and Ethics."
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning
. 
Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall

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

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms  Are Ruining Innocent Lives.” 
Omaha World Herald.  

August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.    

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

"As Technology Evolves,So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys"
Nebraska Lawyer. 
July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman 

“Free Speech in Post-Digital America.”
Hennepin County Library.
Permanent Collection. 

September 2019
w/ The Institute for Digital Humanity and The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Are We the RockstarsWe’ve Been Waiting For?”
PopMatters. 
3 Nov. 2008

“Mike Huckabee’s Family Guy Values.”
Alternet
21 Jan. 2008

“A Hypothetical Problem.”
 PopMatters.
17 Sept. 2006

PUBLICATIONS: ACADEMIC

***WINNER: Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)

"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference.
 
Proceedings.  (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman

"The Roberts Court and Compulsory Collective Bargaining: Reading the Tea Leaves After Janus and Masterpiece."  
Georgetown Journal of Law
and Public Policy.
 
Spring 2023.
w/ Thomas Freeman

“In Two Voices: A Neuroscientist and Patient
Tell Their Story.”
Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020
With Amanda Aherns and Stephen Pederson. 

***WINNER: Best Paper Award

“Let Them All Eat Cake: Rhetorically Mapping Religious Freedom, LGBTQIA Discrimination, and The First Amendment After Janus and Masterpiece.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business
Proceedings.  2020
With Thomas Freeman

“Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation After Janus.” 
William and Mary Business Law Review. 
11: 609 (2020).
With Thomas Freeman and Destiyne Sewell 

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

“The Future of Collective Bargaining: Rhetorically Predicting a First Amendment Right to Negotiation.”   
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business. 
Proceedings 2019
With Thomas Freeman and Destynie Sewell.  

“What About Cynthia: A Case Study Exploring Corporate Fiduciary Duties and Social Responsibility.” 
Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies.  
Vol. 25, Issue 4 (2019).
With Thomas Freeman

"A Legal And Ethical Audit of Continental Bank and Trust."

Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies
 Vol. 25, Issue 2 (2019)
With Thomas Freeman 

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

Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era : How to Realign our Rhetorical Judgmentsfor the Post-Postmodern, Digital Media Age.
Dissertation. 
Ohio State University, 2012.

“The Rhetoric of Narrative: What the Law as Narrative Movement Can Teach the Rest of the Narrative Turn.”
Narrative Acts: Rhetoric, Race, Identity, Knowledge. 
Deborah Journet, Ed. 
Hampton Press, 2011 

“Rhetoric.”
Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel.  
Peter Logan, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 

“New Media, New English.”
Reading and Writing New Media.
Eds. Cheryl E. Ball and James Kalmbach. 
Hampton Press, 2009
w/ Jason Palmeri, Cormac Slevin, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 

Commonplace: A User’s Guide to Persuasion(for an Age that Desperately Needs One). 
McGraw-Hill, 2009
w/ Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Textbook and ed tech platform

“Foreword.”
The Business of Higher Education:Marketing and Consumer Interests.  
Eds. John C. Knapp and David J. Siegel. 
Praeger, 2009.
With E. Gordon Gee. 

“Re-Learning How to Argue.”  
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.  
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe.
Hampton Press, 2007 
Audio essay.

“Made Actual Through Pain: A Literacy Narrative.” 
Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers.
Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe. 
Hampton Press, 2007 

Documentary. 
With Michael Harker and Cormac Slevin. ​​

“Not Necessarily Not the News: Remediation, Gatekeeping, and The Daily Show.”
Journal of American Culture
28.4 (Dec 2005): 415-430

INVITED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

***WINNER: Primeaux Best Paper Award.  (Runner-up)
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics." 
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference. 
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman.  
October 2022

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.” 
 
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris.
Paris, France. May 2022
***FEATURED IN: "Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible?"
Forbes. September 9, 2022

“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.” 
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
With Thomas Freeman.
Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech, and University of Pennsylvania. 
Online.  April 2022 

“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.” 
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN:
April 2022  (Online.)

“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics, and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.” 
Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted. 
Chicago, IL and Online:  
March 2022

***WINNER: Online Voting Competition
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman,Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan
Austin, TX: March 2022 

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

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

 “Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman. 
Chicago, IL: March 2021 

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

“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Indiana University & Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020 

“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

“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019

“Why Digital Rights IsThe New Civil Rights Movement.” 
North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018

"EMF Science and the Post-Fact Society: Models to Stop Disinformation.”
Drew University.
New Jersey: June 2018

“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017
In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day. 

“Shouting Fire: Originalism and Antonin Scalia.” Jiggery-Pokery and Applesauce?
The Impact and Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia
Hamline University Center for Justice and Law.
Saint Paul, MN: February 2016

 “#Objectivity: Unlikable Narrative Justice.”
Beyond Ferguson:
Critical Conversations.
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN: January 2015 

“Finding Bias in New York Times Reporting on Israel and Palestine.”
Yeshiva University.
New York, NY: February 2010

 “2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact(or, Why Did Postmodernism End?)"
Project Narrative Presents: Prophets in Their Own Century.
Columbus, OH: January 2009

“OurSpace: Resituating Civic Literacy in the University Curriculum.”
LiteracyStudies@OSU. 
The Ohio State University.
With Michael Harker and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. 
Columbus, OH: March 30, 2007

COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

“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

“What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR.  May 2020

“Cellular Home Invasion: Public Art As Rhetorical Intervention in Scientific Debates On EMF Health Effects.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Portland, OR.  May 2020. (COVID).

“Make Them Bake Cake? In the Wake of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Which Religious Activities Are Protected ExpressionUnder the First Amendment and Protected from Discrimination Laws?”
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Daniel Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 2020

 “Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.” 
Midwest Business Administrative Association / Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider.
Chicago, IL.  March 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

 “The Right to Speak, Bake, or Film…or Not…Which Activities are Protected Expression Under the First Amendment?”
Huber Hurst Research Seminar in Business Law and Ethics.
With Thomas Freeman.
Gainsville, FL.  January 2020

 “Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman.
Lexington, VA.  April 2019

“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

Sound Studies.  Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America
Summer Institute.
Bloomington, IN. May 2017

“Campaign Narrative, The End: A New Story for the Narrative Model of Rhetorical Agency,”
Rhetoric Society of America.
San Antonio, TX. May 2014 

“The New New Journalism:The Post-Postmodern Aestheticsof Narrative As Rhetoric.”
The International Societyfor the Study of Narrative.
Boston, MA. March 2014

Rogue Publics. Workshop.

Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.

Lawrence, KS. June 2013

21st Century Presidential Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of AmericaSummer Institute.
Lawrence KS: June 2013.

 “Audience 3.0: A New Rhetorical Ethics (and Aesthetics) for a Post-Remix Era.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Philadelphia, PA. May 2012

 “The Gentle Art of Accepting Enemies: New Media and the Rhetorical Aesthetics of Audience Exclusion.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
St. Louis, MO. April 2011 

“Playing Out Remix,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Louisville, KY. March 2010

“End the Gaffe (And How Narrative Theory Let’s Us Do It).”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Birmingham, UK. June 2009

“I’m Not There Anymore: The Return of Identity in the Post-Remix Age.”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2008

“Ethos in a Remediated Age: Context, Character, and Community.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Seattle, WA. May 2008

Digital Rhetoric. Workshop.
Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute.
Troy, NY. June 2007 

“Evaluating the ‘Narrative Turn."
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2007

“Shouting ‘Fire’ in the Writing Classroom: Rhetoric, Law, and Composition.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
New York, NY. March 2007 

“Alive and well and living in Washington’: Narrativity, Casebook Logic, and Legal Pedagogy.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Washington, D.C. March 2007 

“The Rhetoric of Narrative--or, maybe, ‘The Narrative of Narrative.’”
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition.
Louisville, KY. October 2006

 “The Rhetoric of ‘Rhetoric’ in Rhetoric and Political Science.”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Memphis, TN. May 2006

“New Media, New Curricula.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Chicago, IL. April 2006

“The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen (And How it Did).”
American Popular Culture Association.
Atlanta, GA. April 2006 

“Narrative Temporality in News Stories.”
The International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Ottawa, Canada April 2006 

“Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones.”
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.
Syracuse, NY. March 2006 

“Is It Something or Nothing?  Narratologically Situating the Music of John Zorn’s Naked City.”
Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum.
Columbus, OH. April 2004

“’But…This is a Good Graph’: What a Political Science Classroom (and the Spanish-American War) Can Tell us About Interdisciplinarity, Grad
Students, and the Rhetoric of Rhetoric (and Vice Versa).”
The Ohio State University.  EGO Spring Graduate Colloquium
Columbus, OH. May 2005

ADVOCACY & 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

  • ACLU MN
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

    CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
    ASEMBLIES OF GOD
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY

    BYTES MEDIA
    RECLAIM THE BLOCK
    SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
    ACLU NE
    MN SECOND CHANCE COALITION
    CIVIC NEBRASKA
    URBAN EDUCATORS
    MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER
    MN EQUAL JUSTICE CENTER
    DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
    MN DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

  • AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
    IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
    NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION

    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    MCGRAW-HILL
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
    UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
    HAIFA UNIVERSITY

  • SEN. SCOTT LUCERO
    (R-MN)
    COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN
    (D-RICHFIELD)
    COUNCILWOMAN LATRISHA VETAW
    (D-MINNEAPOLIS)
    COUNCILWOMAN NANCY YANG
    (D-ST. PAUL)
    COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER
    (D-MINNEAPOLIS)
    SEN. PEGGY SCOTT
    (R-MN)

    (R-MN) COUNCILMAN WARSAME
    (D -MINNEAPOLIS)
    SEN. SCOTT JENSEN
    (R-MN)
    CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE SCOTT BARRTET
    (R-MN)

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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

  • PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

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

  • PROFESSORSHIPS / CURRICULAR DESIGN / PARTNERS

    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
    MCGRAW-HILL
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY

    CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    HAIFA UNIVERSITY
    UNIV-WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
    BYTES MEDIA
    CIVIC NEBRASKA

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ARTS and CULTURAL INITIATIVES

  • EXHIBITIONS

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR / CURATOR / AESTHETIC ENGINEER / MC / RESEARCHER / SHOWRUNNER

    ACLU MN
    RECLAIM THE BLOCK 
    URBAN EDUCATORS
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
    NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
    INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
    PROTECT MN
    SECOND CHANCE MN
    GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
    INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY
    NORTH SURBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
    THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY


    thank you to my IAA exhibition partners (and hundreds of artists from around the world)

    GO TO THE IAA 
  • INSTALLATIONS

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR / MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST, WRITER, and/or PERFORMER / MUSICIAN


    w/ the IAA

    CZONG MUSEUM FOR
    CONTEMPORARY ART
    (INTERNATIONAL SOLO SHOW:
    SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA)

     TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST   
      MN ARTS BOARD

    FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK  
    ELY CENTER FOR THE ARTS    NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY   PROJECT PROJECT

    ART EXHIBITIONS 
  • INSTALLATIONS

    CREATIVE DIRECTOR / MULTI-MEDIA ARTIST, WRITER, and/or PERFORMER / MUSICIAN


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    MINNEAPOLIS ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL I  NORTHERN SPARK ARTS FESTIVAL    

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