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Trainings and Workshops

Trainings and Workshops

Trainings and workshops for schools, companies, governments, lawyers, advocates, artists, and citizens.  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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    THANK YOU TO MY CLIENTS, PARTNERS, AND ALLIES

    AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
    IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
    NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
    MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER


    SXSW EDU
    INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
    UNIV OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE


    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
    MN DEPT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
    ACLU MINNESOTA
    SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE COALITION
    RECLAIM THE BLOCK
    GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
    LITTLE EARTH NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER
    PROTECT MINNESOTA
    NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    URBAN EDUCATORS

    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 TRAINING and WORKSHOP PARTNERS

      AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
      MN DEPT OF HEALTH / SXSW EDU / MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER / MN HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER / INDIANA UNIVERSITY / LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY /

      TULTAIN VALLEY CREATES / ACLU MN / SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE / COUNCILMAN STEVE FLETCHER / RECLAIM THE BLOCK / GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP / NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS / NORTHEAST SCLUPTURE GALLERY / DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES / COUNCILWOMAN NANCY YANG / REP. STEVE LUCERO / REP. SCOTT JENSEN / COUNCILMAN SIMON TRAUTMANN

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    TECHNOLOGY POLICY,
    LAW, ETHICS, and CULTURE

    ai ethics | disinformation | privacy


    I SPENT 20 YEARS TALKING ABOUT TECH TO ANYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN.
    Now I can explain it to anyone.



    DISINFORMATION and POLITICAL DIVISION

    From the guy who co-built the first multi-campus disinformation fighting system (w/ a Fortune 500 in 2007), became a disinformation 'diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to stop a post-digital civil war, and ended up in the middle of one with a bunch of scrappy Jesus kids dodging bullets while building emergency info/aid networks in Minneapolis when things went ham.

    Strategies, hacks, frameworks, and pep talks to fight against disinformation; start to rebuild our shared reality; and heal our communities, classrooms, companies, and country.


    • From the guy who co-built the first multi-campus disinformation fighting system (w/ a Fortune 500 in 2007),

    • became a disinformation 'diversity hire' at a Bible college to try to stop a post-digital civil war,

    • and ended up in the middle of one with a bunch of scrappy Jesus kids dodging bullets while building emergency info/aid networks in Minneapolis when things went ham.

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    STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS | BIPARTISAN & CROSS-CULTURAL COALITION BUILDING


    Honestly, if you know someone else who spent their career working with the left and right -- to get them to work together -- and spent the last six years on "both sides" of reality, introduce us so we can team up.

    • But our divisions are a national security risk; are tearing our families, communities, and companies apart; and I know why our wires got crossed, where the landmines and opportunities are buried, and how to get humans re-connected again.

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      WE LIVE AND WORK ON BOTH SIDES OF "REALITY." WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT THIS.

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    COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

    Director / Associate Professor
    School of English, Digital Media, and Communicaation Arts

    North Central University: 2018-2023

    Assistant Professor / Co-Creator
    Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts
    Hamline University: 2011-2017


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


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

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

    And I've spent 20 years 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 bilion-dollar fundraising campaign.)


    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.

    FIRST AMENDMENT & FREE SPEECH

    I speak higher education, First Amendment law, and encoded censorship fluently.

    FIRST AMENDMENT and FREE SPEECH

    I've been studying 1A and technology since the 90s, am headhunted to run the famous national orgs, taught it for 20 years (Big 10 and Bible/lefty colleges),

    started an internationally recognized 1A art collective, am a legit casualty of the college free speech crisis,


    and trained thousands of diverse students and citizens to debate/disagree with each other like humans, not gaslit robots.



    • Exec. Director / Professor / Creative Director
      Artist / Curator / College 1A Survivor

      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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