EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Exec Dir + Co-Founder

INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITY

iNSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

Director + Assoc Prof

School of English, Comm, & Digital Media

NORTH CENTRAL UNIV

Assistant Prof / Co-Founder

Division of Rhetoric & Digital Media Arts

HAMLINE UNIVERSITY

Speechwriter: Office of the Pres

THE OHIO STATE UNIV

Promoting the film 'Coded Bias' with awards and educational partners.

ALL COURSES since 2007 FOCUSED ON AI, 1ST AMEND, PRIVACY, DISINFO &/or DIGITAL POLITICS/CULTURE

LAW / AMERICAN POLITICS COMMUNICATIONS / PR / BUSINESS / JOURNALISM / PUBLIC HEALTH / CIVICS / FILM / LITERATURE / CULTURAL STUDIES / CRITICAL & POLITICAL THEORY / CREATIVE WRITING / ART CRITICISM + PRODUCTION (VIDEO, DIGITAL, AUDIO)

elevator pitch + story

Since 2006, I have taught the EXACT SAME method + course sequence on digital ethics, law, politics, & culture...

...to 1000s of students across all disciplines + both sides of reality

They launch cutting-edge think tanks, art collectives, disinformation networks, and PR/news orgs as homework.

And are now an army of internationally recognized experts who have fixed our colleges and the technology that is dividing and destroying us.

In '18, I became an "echo chamber diversity hire" at a MAGA Bible college to try to stop civil war & save higher ed from itself.

Got left/right + all religions to partner together on fixing AI and the tech dividing us.

And classrooms/students from "across the filter bubble" to work together.

It worked. Then our city blew up. Twice.

9/11/01: STARTED GRAD SCHOOL (UNICORN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM) TO SCALE MULTI-INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS

2007: CO-BUILT (99% LIKELY) THE 1ST MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFORMATION-FIGHTING PLATFORM (15K STUDENTS ACRO

for this crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.

PHD (ENGLISH) + MASTER'S IN LAW

The humanities -- not the programmers & social "scientists" who caused this mess -- have the actual solutions.

2007: CO-BUILT (99% LIKELY) THE 1ST MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFORMATION-FIGHTING PLATFORM (15K STUDENTS ACRO

And got promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President.

The punchline?

Used The Daily Show to predict 2026’s reality crisis in '05. And parallel built everyting for comedians.

2012: HILARIOUSLY, I MIGHT HAVE WRITTEN THE 1ST DISSERTATION ON "ALIGNMENT" (I DON'T CARE, BUT AI AN

2007: CO-BUILT (99% LIKELY) THE 1ST MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFORMATION-FIGHTING PLATFORM (15K STUDENTS ACRO

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

(Started with the hardest problems: Privacy law, God, and digital political culure.

If you aren't fixing everything, btw, you are making this mess worse.)

'17: CO-FOUNDED AN INTERNATIONALLY -RECOGNIZED FREE SPEECH ART COLLECTIVE AT ONE OF THE 'WOKEST" COL

'18-'23: BECAME AN "ECHO CHAMBER DIVERSITY HIRE" AT A BIBLE COLLEGE IN MINNEAPOLIS

to get the left/right (and religous orgs) to work together on AI and college reform. It worked.