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The Living Textbook Project creates a next generation educational and civic space.  

Transforming students into free speech, technology ethics, and digital civics leaders by putting student voices In the global digital ethics and free speech conversation via podcasts, videos, social media, white papers, op-eds, and art exhibits.

  • Information Networking / "Showrunning" Systems
    Information Networking / "Showrunning" Systems
  • Governance Systems and Platforms
    Governance Systems and Platforms
  • The Living Textbook Project
    The Living Textbook Project
  • Dispute Resolution and Civic Deliberation System
    Dispute Resolution and Civic Deliberation System
  • The "Manhattan Project"
    The "Manhattan Project"
  • Platforms and Scalable Solutions
    Platforms and Scalable Solutions
  • WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD
    WHAT'S UNDER THE HOOD
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    The "Manhattan Project" (Copy)
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  • THERE IS STILL TIME TO FIX HIGHER ED

    THE NOT INSANE WAY

    WHERE WE DON'T LOSE THE 21ST CENTURY.

  • Solve the free speech vs DEI mess (and false flags) for everyone.

    Rethink post-AI education:     Experiential, interactive, non-ideological, and public-facing.

    Catalyze and curate constructive campus dialogues     across cultural, religious, and political divides.

    Bring back free speech and respect for all students and faculty.

    Build revenue generating student/faculty run think tanks, arts advocacy organizations, and internal/external communications.

    Revolutionize assessment to empower and protect students and faculty.

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AWARD WINNING / STUDENT CV LINE CREATING / WORLD-CHANGING

EXPERIENTIAL and INTERACTIVE LEARNING

Socratic, experiential, entrepreneurial, scalable.

  • 100% NON-IDEOLOGICAL, INTERDISCPILINARY,
    and INTERCONNECTED
    CURRICULA

    Indoctrinating kids is gross:
    So I let them control the conversation / what we study depending on what is on the news that day.

    And I TAUGHT THE EXACT SAME WAY / MATERIAL AT A BIBLE COLLEGE, THE BIG 10, AND ONE OF THE WOKEST SCHOOLS IN AMERICA

    CAN ANYONE ELSE SAY THAT?

  • MY STUDENTS BUILD INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED and AWARD WINNING


    THINK TANKS,
    NEWS OUTLETS,
    ART COLLECTIVES,
    ADVOCACY/PR ORGS,
    ED TECH START UPS, PODCASTS,
    INTERACTIVE TEXTBOOKS,
    UNPRECEDENTED POLITICAL/CIVIC COALITIONS,
    AND CIVILIAN INFORMATION DEFENSE SYSTEMS

    AS HOMEWORK.

  • SOCRATIC and EXPERIENTIAL: I'VE 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.

    #AIPROOF

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PLUG and PLAY STUDENT RUN THINK TANKS

ART COLLECTIVES, JOURNALISM OUTLETS, PR and ADVOCACY FIRMS, and RESEARCH NETWORKS

I.E., WHAT MY STUDENTS BUILD AS HOMEWORK
(and THEN RUN AS EMPLOYEES TO CREATE SELF-SUSTAINING ROI and NON-PROFIT INVESTMENT OPTIONS)


CURRICULUM (K-COLLEGE, GRAD, AND LAW)
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PLATFORMS / PLUG and PLAY STUDENT THINK TANKS and ORGS /
WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING and AUDITS

Empowering the next generation of tech and civic leaders
from both sides of the aisle.

Fueled by 20 years of proven solutions to fix education
in the post-AI, DEI, 2025 world.

CONSULTING / COACHING / AUDITS
SCALABLE GOVERNANCE PLATFORMS

A simple, holistic, non-partisan technology policy, law, and
governance system.

Now partnered with top experts and
powering scalable platforms
that can network companies, schools, governments,
and citizens.

STRATEGIC PR / MEDIA CAMPAIGNS / CIVIC EDUCATION/ ART EXHIBITIONS /
SCALABLE SOLUTIONS

Catalyzing allegedly impossible
bipartisan and cross-cultural
coalitions and civic community conversations.

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North Central University I Indiana University I Creighton University I Haifa University I Hamline University I University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

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Co-Founder / Creative Director

THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

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Dr M Victories I The Ohio State University I McGraw-Hill

Commonplace: A Citizen's Guide to Persuasion (For An Age That Desperately Needs One)

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MY STORY / ELEVATOR PITCH

I'VE LAUNCHED THREE START UPS

To prove my teams of students and top world experts could fix higher ed, AI, and post-digital
America.

And the last crew almost pulled it off, except we live in Minneapolis, some jerk tried to shoot me, and all hell broke loose.

THE FIRST AMENDMENT and HIGHER ED REFORM

I started an internationally-recognized free speech art collective at one of the "wokest" schools in the country

and then became an "echo chamber diversity hire"
at a Bible College to teach kids on the other side of reality.

PR and FIXING OUR POLITICAL DIVISIONS

I was the speechwriter for Time's University President of the Year.

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

AI I DISINFORMATION I PRIVACY I FREE SPEECH

I have an interdisciplinary phd (and law degree) in putting out the dumpster fire collision of

technology,
Constitutional law,
American democracy, postmodernism,
and post-AI
politics and education.

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We have weeks to start fixing higher ed CORRECTLY

or we'll lose it (and the 21st century) forever.

And I spent 20 years combining the best ideas from:

Big 10 schools, small colleges ("woke," MAGA-y, and Bible),
a Fortune 500, and two nationally-recognized university presidents

(including Time's "President of the Year" during a $1B campaign).


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TEACHING / ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT / EDUCATION REFORM STRATEGIES

SPEAKING / CONSULTING

COLLEGE REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

We are living proof that we can still fix AI, education and America.

And we have the 20-years proven solutions -- for AI, disinformation, free speech, privacy, and fixing our colleges-- and the Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's society story your people need to hear right now.

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MY STUDENTS' CVs

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY / NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY / HAMLINE UNIVERSITY / CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY / INDIANA UNIVERSITY

PRESS / MEDIA APPEARANCES

“After Facebook Scandal, Students Take On Issues of Big Tech.” 
NBC KARE-11 Evening News.  
Minneapolis: 7 October 2021. 

Rebroadcast On:
NBC WTOL: Toledo
NBC KHOU: Houston
NBC KXTV: Sacramento.

“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”
NBC KARE-11 Breaking the News. 
Minneapolis: 13 September 2018.

PUBLICATIONS

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
February 2023
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.

“Principles of Digital Law and Ethics.” 
Competition Policy International: Special Issue on Machine Learning. 
With Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
February 2023

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

“WandaVision Exposes the Reality that Our Filter Bubbles Control Our Minds.”
Hannah Grubbs.
Popular Culture and Theology. 
September 22, 2021.

“WandaVision: An Intersectional Perspective on the Erasure of Jewish Identity.” 
Joe Cobb. 
Blerg.com. 
April 18th, 2021.  

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

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

“In Two Voices.” 
Amanda Aherns, Aaron McKain, and Stephen Pederson. 
Intima: Journal of Narrative Medicine.
August 2020. 

“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision Making.” 
Thomas Freeman, Aaron McKain, and Samson Hall. 
Nebraska Lawyer.
May/June 2020.

“Post-Digital Free Speech.” 
Curated Cross-Cultural Zine Exchange. 
With Allison Baker and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.
Hennepin County Library.
(Permanent Collection).  September 2019.

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

INVITED ACADEMIC TALKS

Invited Academic Conferences
and Presentations:

“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.” 
SXSW EDU. 
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. 
March 2022.

Winner of online voting competition to present.

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

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

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

“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.

CIVIC VICTORIES

Art Exhibitions and Civic Forums

Art Exhibitions 

and Civic Forums
juried, grant-funded, and/or award-winning local, national, and international exhibitions

“All Bullets Shatter: Untold Stories of Gun Violence and Trauma.” Living Art Exhibition and Civic Forum. 
Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2022.  With the Institute for Digital Humanity; Institute for Aesthetic
Advocacy; Guns Down, Love Up; Project Minnesota; The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (Ohio State,
Portland State, George State); and the Pittsburgh University Prison Writing Project.  

“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights: Race and Technology.”  Juried International Art Exhibition and Community
Education Event.  Minneapolis MN and Online: February 2021. With the Institute for Digital Humanity,
Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, ACLU MN, Native Youth Arts Collective, and Councilman Steve Fletcher. 

“Contaminated.”  International Juried Art Exhibition and Civic Forum.  Minneapolis, MN and Online: May 2020.
With the Institute for Digital Humanity and Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  

“Medical Unreliability and Sick Girl Theory.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With Allison Baker, the
Institute for Digital Humanity, and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  St. Cloud Zine Fest.  St. Cloud, MN. 
February 2020.

“Sad Girls and Hopeful Women.”  Curated Cross-Cultural Art Exchange.  With the Institute for  Digital Humanity, 

and the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy.  Twin Cities Zine Fest.  Minneapolis, MN.  September 2020.


“Hopeful Women.”  Student Art Installation on Christian Feminism.  Hamline University.  Saint Paul, MN.  Dec
2018.

“World Press Freedom Day: What Do You Have to Say,” Student Art Installation on Free Speech.  Hamline
University.  Saint Paul, MN.  April 2017.

“Y2K16.” Student Art Installation on Digital Ethics. Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2016.

“dronesTruck: Operation Como.” Student-Curated International Sound Art Exhibition. Saint Paul, MN. May 2016.

“School Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Student Art Installation on School Shootings.  Hamline University. Saint Paul, MN. December 2015.

COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

Competitive Academic
Conferences And Workshops:



“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.  

“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.  

“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.

 “Sustaining Well-Being in an Electromagnetic Environment: A Rhetorical Analysis.” Brooke Wallington. 
National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Memphis, TN. April 2017.

 "Post-Postmodern Identity Performance and the Digital World, Or: How to Keep Up With the Kardashians.”
Hannah Kolbeck.  National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.

“Pop Will Erase Itself: Music Criticism & Culture after the Digital Turn.”  Tommy Lawson. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Spokane, WA.  April 2015.

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