Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.
Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.
Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.
ai ethics | free speech I disinformation | privacy
bi-partisan coalitions I college & civic reform
Story & Proven Solutions
I left liberal higher education in 2018,
became a diversity hire at a Bible college,
and used 20 years of IP to start
a wildly successful bipartisan and multifaith digital ethics think tank.
Everything works because I started grad school
on 9/11 to build bipartisan solutions
to the inevitable collision between
technology, postmodern American politics, and the Constitution/First Amendment.
This wasn't my team's first rodeo:
We built a multi-campus disinformation fighting network back in 2007 and a free speech
art collective in 2017.
And our story is the story of how higher education collapsed. And why America will too if someone doesn't step up and Oppenheimer this mess.
Executive Director
Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity
Creative Director
Co-Founder
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Visiting Scholar
OSTROM Workshop,
Indiana University
ai ethics | free speech I disinformation | privacy
bi-partisan coalitions I college & civic reform
A BIPARTISAN BLUEPRINT
TO FIX OUR COLLEGES, AI, AND
POST-DIGITAL AMERICA.
AT THE SAME TIME.
We have a simple, holistic, 2,000-year-old method to fix the whole mess. And the Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's Society story -- of citizens putting differences aside and working together -- that Americans desperately needs to hear.
IN 2018, I LEFT
"LIBERAL" HIGHER EDUCATION
and became a diversity hire at a Bible college
to prove that all Americans
could still come together to fix
AI, disinformation, higher education,
and our country.
Sounds crazy, I know.
But here's the crazier thing:
It worked.
my students, clients and partners
for proving that all Americans can stop
canceling each other and
re-embrace
our common humanity.
Thank you to
ACLU MINNESOTA
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
BYTES MEDIA
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MN EQUAL JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MN DEPT. OF HEALTH
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
PROTECT MN
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
ACLU NEBRASKA
Thank you to my clients, partners, and students for proving that all Americans can still come together and re-embrace
our common humanity.
A BIPARTISAN BLUEPRINT
TO FIX AI, OUR COLLEGES,
& POST-DIGITAL AMERICA.
We have a simple, holistic, 2,000-year-old method to solve the whole mess.
And the Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's Society story -- of citizens putting differences aside and working together -- that America
needs to hear right now.
ACLU MINNESOTA
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
BYTES MEDIA
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MN EQUAL JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MN DEPT. OF HEALTH
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
PROTECT MN
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
ACLU NEBRASKA
EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
STEVE FLETCHER
ABDI WARSAME
LATRISHA VETAW
PHILIPE CUNNINGHAM
SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
MITRA JILALI
NELSIE YANG
RICHFIELD, MN CITY COUNCIL
SIMON TRAUTMANN
MINNESOTA STATE
HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS
PEGGY SCOTT
SCOTT LUCERO
DR. STEVE JENSEN
JEREMY MUNSON
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Twenty years of proven ideas and actual solutions
for a just, free, and sane post-digital world for everyone.
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Executive Director/Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity
Visiting Scholar
OSTROM Working Group
Indiana University
Consultant
Anti-Defamation League
Co-Founder
Commonplace (McGraw-Hill)
Tech Ethics, Policy, Culture, & Law
© 2023 Dr. Aaron McKain
Two decades of cutting-edge
teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.
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Actively Headhunted
To lead state and national First Amendment orgs
Currently Working On:
A plug and play K-law school -- plus professional trainings for advocates and attorneys -- interactive
post-digital free speech curriculum
and cross-cultural civic deliberation platform.
Actively Headhunted
To lead state and national
First Amendment orgs
Currently Working On
Leveling up a plug and play k-law school interactive
post-digital free speech
curriculum and cross-cultural civic deliberation platform
Actively Headhunted
To lead state and national
First Amendment orgs
Currently Seeking Investors & Partners On
A plug and play K-law school interactive post-digital free speech curriculum and civic deliberation program.
Two decades of cutting-edge teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.
Higher Ed Leadership & Innovation
Two decades of cutting-edge
teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.
Experience from the adjunct basement
to the President's office, with a Fortune 500 company, Bible college, and the wokest school in America in between.
Higher ed experience from the adjunct basement to the president's office, with a Fortune 500, Bible schools,
and the wokest college in America in between.
My students have launched
a disinformation fighting platform, a free speech art collective, and a bipartisan and multifaith digital ethics think tank.
Now we want to show you
how to fix your school
and win the 21st century.
Artist/Curator
Creative Director/Co-Founder
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Creates and Leads
Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural
teams of artists, scholars,
and advocates
Produces Art About;
Digital Civil Rights, Mental & Physical Health
Disability, Gun Violence,
Post-Digital America
Because art is the answer when words stop working.
I left liberal higher education in 2018,
became a diversity hire at a Bible college,
and used 20 years of IP to start
a wildly successful bipartisan and multifaith digital ethics think tank.
Everything works because I started grad school
on 9/11 to build bipartisan solutions
to the inevitable collision between
technology, postmodern American politics, and the Constitution/First Amendment.
This wasn't my team's first rodeo:
We built a multi-campus disinformation fighting network back in 2007 and a free speech
art collective in 2017.
And our story is the story of how higher education collapsed. And why America will too if someone doesn't step up and Oppenheimer this mess.
Arts Advocacy & Creative PR Solutions
Twenty years of proven ideas and actual solutions for a just, free, and sane post-digital world for everyone
Two decades of cutting-edge
teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.
Because art is the answer when words stop working.
Executive Director & Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity
Creative Director & Co-Founder
The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy
Visiting Scholar
OSTROM Workshop, Indiana University