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

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

BIPARTISAN COALITIONS
(AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)


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.



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

PHD + MASTER'S IN LAW
The punchline?
Used The Daily Show to predict 2026’s reality crisis in '05.

And got promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President
(during a billion-dollar fundraising campaign).

.

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.

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.

"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.)

.

to get the left/right (and religous orgs) to work together on AI and college reform. It worked.
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.
Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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p.s.. socials are new, boring, strategic, or DL