CONSULTING
20 YEARS of PROVEN SOLUTIONS & "IMPOSSIBLE" VICTORIES
THIS IS THE MAKE-OR-BREAK MOMENT
FOR YOUR COMPANY, CITY, COLLEGE, ORG, AND OUR COUNTRY & COMMON HUMANITY
There isn't time for this to be your first rodeo.
Let me help you out.
Seriously.
ANY TOPIC IN THE ORBIT OF THIS PAGE IS FAIR GAME
BOOKING: I KEEP THIS VERY SIMPLE
Email me the "who" and the "when" -- and what you want to accomplish -- and we'll take it from there.
THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, CLIENTS, AND ALLIES
FOR YOUR TRUST & WILLINGNESS TO PUT YOUR DIFFERENCES ASIDE
20 YEARS OF PROVEN SOLUTIONS
20 years of leading teams of top experts: Plus 1000s of students, lawyers, citizens, & artists...
...on a "Manhattan Project" to align AI, disinfo, privacy, & free speech (and stop civil war) in time.
THE IDH IS BUILD #3.
WE GOT TO THE 10-YARD LINE.
Then our city blew up. Twice
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1ST AND EARLY FOR 2 DECADES
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
Started grad school to solve this crisis of:
CODE, POLITICAL CULTURE, & CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
PHD (ENGLISH/RHETORIC)
+ MASTER'S IN LAW
2007
9/11/2001
9/11/2001
BUILT THE 1ST MULTI-CAMPUS DISINFO-FIGHTING PLATFORM
15K STUDENTS with A FORTUNE 500 + BIG 10)
And was promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President.
2012
9/11/2001
2012
MY DISSERTATION MAY BE
1st ON ALIGNMENT
"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 culture.)
2017
THE PUNCHLINE?
2012
AWARD-WINNING
FIRST AMENDMENT ART COLLECTIVE
To solve the college free speech crisis. Got an international museum show on our 1st try.
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
Used The Daily Show to predict 2026's reality crisis in '05. And parallel built everything for comedians.
FACTS:
THE PUNCHLINE?
THE PUNCHLINE?
The humanities -- not the programmers & social "scientists" who caused this mess -- have the actual solutions.
AI & ALGIORITHMS
POLICY / LAW / GOVERNANCE / ED / CULTURE
This is a crisis of code, culture, & Constitutional law.
Everyone backed the wrong experts.
I taught college kids my disciplines -- narrative theory and law -- and they got to the 30-yard line on state-level AI alignment in 2022 as homework.
DISINFORMATION & POLITICAL DIVISION
"IMPOSSIBLE" 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 work together.
as well as in medical storytelling (Intima, Missouri Review) and curated international exhibitions (Contaminated, Sick Girl, All Bullets Shatter) to stress-test cross-cultural civic forums against active medical and scientific misinformation.
- 1st multi-campus disinfo fighting platform (Manhattan Project #1 in 2007 w/ a Fortune 500 & Ohio State).
- Unprecedented bipartisan tech and disinformation partnerships (after Dr. McKain “crossed the filter bubble”).
- Tested under wartime conditions during Minneapolis unrest/COVID “infodemic”(2020-21): Civil civic 3rd- rail policy forums (medical science → trauma) for bipartisan elected officials, bridged MAGA/Evangelical and BIPOC/Inner-City narrative streams via post-fact journalism networks, raised $27K for Little Earth Native HUD Community mutual aid.
- Runner-up, NPR Next Team Challenge.
- Publications: J. of American Culture, Intima, & Theology & Pop Culture.
- Exhibitions: Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea, juried solo show).
NERD STUFF: GEMINI'S SYNOPSIS OF DR M.'S R AND D
- Developed diagnostic taxonomy for identifying narrative volatility in all disinformation cases as well as in medical storytelling (Intima, Missouri Review) and curated international exhibitions (Contaminated, Sick Girl, All Bullets Shatter) to stress-test cross-cultural civic forums against active medical and scientific misinformation.
- Dr. McKain used high-entropy Daily Show datasets (in 2005) to predict the collapse of traditional journalism gatekeeping and 2026’s "post-truth" crisis (Journal of American Culture) and engineered an "Aesthetic Logic of Truthiness" framework via Colbert (The Joke is On Us).
- With the Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy, the IDH operationalized art/museum infrastructures (CICA South Korea, NE Sculpture Gallery) to negotiate high-stakes scientific/public health controversies with partners/Minneapolis’ citizens (presented at Rhetoric Society of America; Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Symposium)
FREE SPEECH + THE COLLEGE DEI MESS + ENCODED CENSORSHIP
20 years of award-winning FIRST AMENDMENT research, teaching, and advocacy.
On the front lines of the college free speech crisis, arts, and encoded censorship.
AND PROBABLY THE ONLY EXPERT
to teach the First Amendment on "both sides" of reality (and train Jesus and woke students to scale free speech defense non-profits)
COLLEGE LEADERSHIP, REFORM, & POST-AI ED
SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES
Connecting students and classrooms across the digital divide since 2007.
Award-winning higher ed leadership: Whether directing a school, empowering students to build internationally-recognized think tanks, or speechwriting for Time's college Pres of the Year.
This is probably where I say we scaled an AI/disinfo "Manhattan Project" as homework.
STRATEGIC PR AND COALITON BUILDING
BIPARTISAN COALITION BUILDING & CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
"Impossible" coalitions, agreements, and conversations
Action-oriented events and platforms
(on all the 3rd rail issues)
to forge new political alliances.
And remind people programmed to hate each other that, duh, they actualy don't. Everyone is algo gaslit.
BIPARTISAN COALTION BUILDING and CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
DISPUTE RESOLUTION and DISINFORMATION NETWORKS
Action-oriented events and platforms
(on all the 3rd rail issues)
to forge new political alliances..
ARTS ADVOCACY and CROSS-CULTURAL CIVIC FORUMS
ARTS ADVOCACY and CROSS-CULTURAL CIVIC FORUMS
BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING
Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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