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Technology Ethics, Law, & Politics IFirst Amendment
 Bipartisan Coalition Building I Higher Ed Leadership & Innovation
Arts Advocacy & Creative PR

professor | executive director I advocate I artist & curator I communications strategist

Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.

professor | advocate | executive director I  artist & curator | communication strategist

Aaron McKain, Ph.D., M.S.L.

What Dr. McKain does:

We are at the crisis moment for our country, digital civil rights, free speech principles, and colleges.

We are at the crisis moment for our country, digital civil rights, free speech principles,
and schools.

Which is why -- in 2018 -- I left liberal higher education and became a diversity hire at a Evangelical college to bring the left and right --and Christians, Muslims, and Jewish-Americans -together to fight against the technology tearing us apart. 

Which is why -- in 2018 -- I left liberal higher education and became a diversity hire at a Evangelical college to bring the left and right --and Christians, Muslims, and Jewish-Americans -together to fight against the technology tearing us apart. 

The problem is code and culture.

And if we don't fix it now
-- or keep letting partisan hacks on both sides program in their ideological insanity --
we're all screwed.

Digital Ethics, Law, & Politics:

Technology Ethics, Law & Politics

Twenty years of proven and bi-partisan solutions
for just, free, and sane
digital world for everyone.

Executive Director/Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity

Free Speech & Bi-Partisan Coalition Building

Two decades of cutting-edge teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.

Thank you to my clients and partners

who prove that people can still put differences aside and work together to fix this @#$# mess we're in.
 

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: OSTROM WORKING GROUP 

 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, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
SIMON TRAUTMANN

MINNESOTA STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS

 PEGGY SCOTT 

  SCOTT LUCERO 

DR. STEVE JENSEN 

JEREMY MUNSON 
 

Higher Education Leadership & Innovation

North Central University
Hamline University
 

Director and Associate Professor
School of English, Digital Media, & Communication Arts

Assistant Professor
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts

Speechwriter/Communication Strategist
Office of the President

Ohio State University

Education Consultant

McGraw-Hill, Anti-Defamation League, OSTROM Working Group @ Indiana Univ.
 

Arts Advocacy & Creative PR

North Central University
Hamline University
 

Director and Associate Professor
School of English, Digital Media, & Communication Arts

Assistant Professor
Division of Rhetoric and Digital Media Arts

Speechwriter/Communication Strategist
Office of the President

Ohio State University

Education Consultant

McGraw-Hill, Anti-Defamation League, OSTROM Working Group @ Indiana Univ.
 

Two decades of cutting-edge teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.

Creative Director/Co-Founder

The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

Curator/Critic/Artist

And because me and my students lives' have been
Dead Poet's Society 
meets Black Mirror bananas: 

Technology Ethics,
Law, & Politics

Twenty years of proven and bi-partisan solutions
for just, free, and sane
digital world for everyone.

Executive Director/Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity

Public Health & Disability

I'm rocking a genetic condition and a lifetime of PTSD.  Getting shot at in my living room in North Minneapolis on Halloween 2021 didn't help.

But me and my also X teams are proving

that we can still make a difference by giving voice to those who have been silenced.

ACLU MN I ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE

RECLAIM THE BLOCK I URBAN EDUCATORS

LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY

NATIVE YOUTH ARTS CENTER

INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY IPROJECT MN

SECOND CHANCE MN

GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP

INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

NORTH SURBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS

NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY I HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

THE DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES

CZONG MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

TWIN CITIES ZINE FEST

FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK

ELY CENTER FOR THE ARTS,

NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY

ELY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

PROJECT PROJECT

Free Speech and Bi-Partisan Coalition Building

Two decades of cutting-edge teaching, curriculum, research, and advocacy to fight for free speech and catalyze allegedly impossible cross-cultural conversations.

Executive Director/Co-Founder
The Institute for Digital Humanity


Creative Director/Co-Founder

The Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy

Co-Founder
Commonplace (McGraw-Hill)

 20 Years of Proven Solutions

CO-FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
The Institute for Digital Humanity


CO-FOUNDER

Commonplace