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Dr.Aaron McKain,MSL

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THE IDH

FREE SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT

20 years on the frontlines of the college free speech crisis, encoded censorship, and defending the arts, culture, academics, and comedians from people programmed to act like robots.

THANK YOU TO MY ALLIES, PARTNERS, CLIENTS, & STUDENTS

PRESS and MEDIA

“Why Isn’t There Social Media Forgiveness?”  NBC KARE-11.  September 13,  2018.  

See all press clips

what's under the hood

I started grad school on 9/11 to solve this crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.

  • In 2018, I became an "echo chamber diversity hire" at a MAGA Bible college to stop civil war.
     
  • It worked: Got left/right + all religions to partner together on fixing AI and the tech dividing us.  
     
  • Then our city blew up. Twice.

Now even AI knows (fwiw) that our non-partisan non-profit is the "Last Manhattan Project Standing” to align AI, disinfo, privacy, & free speech.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

see receipts here

ONE HOLISITIC METHOD FOR THE WHOLE MESS

DEAD NEUTRAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, ALREADY ACCEPTED BY THE ACADEMICS

  • Best Paper (Runner Up) Primeaux Award: "Using Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
  • Inaugural Transatlantic Diagloue on AI and Humanity (Paris; Reported in Forbes)

education reform

see receipts here

Training students (& faculty) to be in charge of their classroom, college, & cultural 1st Amendment principles.

  •  Teaching them to make Constitutionally-based judgments on whatever is on the news.
      
  • Sometimes "aesthetically enacting" tricky hypotheticals to get ahead of them  


Field tested in the classroom and real world (and the news and international art exhibitions) for 20 years.


TEACHABLE TO ANYONE: K-CEO

20 years Socratically teaching the First Amendment across the campus -- from lit to business to poli sci to art -- and to "both sides" of reality.

civic engagement & PR

see receipts here

ABLE TO RE-UNITE DIVIDED AMERICANS

CREATIVE DIRECTOR + CO-FOUNDER
THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY

VISIT THE IAA

ART EXHIBITIONS

CIVIC FORUMS

STRATEGIC PR

STRATEGIC PR

BOOKING: NEWS/PODS + Consulting + trainings + SPEAKING

I keep things simple. Just email or DM me


NEWS APPEARANCES:
Same day or remote is fine: Currently in Minneapolis.  
 

SPEAKING

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

CONSULTING: 

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

TRAININGS/WORKSHOPS: 

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

RESILIENCE + CONFLICT RESOLUTION
My "off menu" specialities. 

CONTACT DR. MCKAIN

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