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education, pubs, conferences, awards

  

  

  

professional experience

 

 

 

HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

POLITICAL MOBILIZATION and CIVIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT

HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES

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HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

POLITICAL MOBILIZATION and CIVIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT

HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES 

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POLITICAL MOBILIZATION and CIVIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT

POLITICAL MOBILIZATION and CIVIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT

BIPARTISAN COALITIONS 

(AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)

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THIS IS NOT MY FIRST RODEO.


ART and CULTURAL ADVOCACY

BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING


Action-oriented events and platforms

 (on all the 3rd rail issues) 

to forge new political alliances.

arts and culture solutions

   



ai solutions and services
DISINFO SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES
1ST AMEND SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES
PRIVACY SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES

a particular set of skills = multi-industry "showrunning"

EXPERIENTIAL ED PLATFORMS + THINK TANKS + GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS + INDUSTRY NETWORKS

 + ART COLLECTIVES + DISINFO FIGHTING NETWORKS




POLITICAL MOBILIZATION and CIVIC CRISIS MANAGEMENT

BIPARTISAN COALITIONS 

(AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)

Two decades of working with ALL students, advocates, lawmakers, and experts to get people programmed to hate each other to 

remember that they don't.


HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM and POST-AI EDUCATION

SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES

Award-winning higher ed leadership: Whether directing a school, teaching students how to build internationally-recognized think tanks as homework, or speechwriting. forTime's University

 President of the Year 


  

ARTS ADVOCACY

THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

CO-FOUNDER /CREATIVE DIRECTOR


BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING


Action-oriented cross-cultural events and platforms (on all the 3rd rail issues) to forge new political alliances.


a particular set of skills = multi-industry "showrunning"

EXPERIENTIAL ED PLATFORMS + THINK TANKS + GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS + INDUSTRY NETWORKS + ART COLLECTIVES + DISINFO FIGHTING NETWORKS

9/11/01: Started grad school -- unicorn program -- to solve this crisis of code, culture, and law.

9/11/01: Started grad school -- unicorn program -- to solve this crisis of code, culture, and law.

PHD + MASTER'S IN LAW


The punchline? 


Used The Daily Show to predict 2026’s reality crisis in '05.

  

2007: Co-built 1st multi-campus disinfo-fighting network w/ a Fortune 500 and Big 10.

9/11/01: Started grad school -- unicorn program -- to solve this crisis of code, culture, and law.

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


(during a billion-dollar fundraising campaign). 



'17: Co-founded an int. recognized free speech art collective at 1 of the "wokest" colleges in U.S.

'17: Co-founded an int. recognized free speech art collective at 1 of the "wokest" colleges in U.S.

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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

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

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

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

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

'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.


BOOKINg and hiring

I KEEP THINGS SIMPLE: JUST EMAIL ME.

 Same day or remote is fine: Currently in Minneapolis.


1st crowd of 1000s at 17.  Should have been a game show host.
Speak "both sides" fluently.


Send me the gist.  If I'm into it, the first meeting is free.


Can get your team up to speed in an hour, on the same page in a day, and make 'em rockstars in a week.


My "off-menu" specialties for orgs and audiences that genuinely need my help: Breaking up a fight, a "hard to reach" group dealing with PTSD (ahem), schools and tech companies serious about fixing this, etc. 


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