PR AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
POST-DIGITAL POLITICAL DIVISION: 20 YRS OF EXPERIENCE
the story + my skills
STRATEGIC PR / CIVIC DISINFORMATION DEFENSE / SPEECHWRITING / POLITICAL STRATEGY / "IMPOSSIBLE" BIPARTISAN COALITIONS / CITIZEN MOBILIZATION
And art + comedy if nothing else works.
THANK YOU TO MY STUDENTS, PARTNERS, AND ALLIES
FROM "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY
speaking + consulting + worksops
SPEAKING / CONSULTING / TRAININGS / PLATFORMS and BLUEPRINTS
"Impossible" bi-partisan and cross-cultural coalitioNS
To heal communities and families, start to rebuild our shared reality, and fight together for our common humanity.
In 2018, I became an "echo chamber diversity hire" at a MAGA Bible college to stop civil war.
I started grad school on 9/11 to solve this crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.
- It worked: Got left/right + all religions to partner together on fixing AI and the tech dividing us.
- Then our city blew up. Twice.
CURATING AND CATALYZING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
CIVIC NETWORKS, ADVOCACY PLATFORMS, AND DISINFO FIGHTING SYSTEMS
THIS IS NOT MY FIRST RODEO
CIVIC FORUMS and ART EXHIBITIONS
CURATING AND CATALYZING COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
JURIED OR GRANT FUNDED: LOCAL, NATIONAL, and INTERNATIONAL
CURATED TO CATALYZE IMPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS
“Digital Rights Are Civil Rights:
Race and Technology.”
Juried International Art Exhibition
and Community Education Event.
Minneapolis, MN and Online:
February 2021
With ACLU MN, Safety Not Surveillance, Reclaim the Block, Northeast Sculpture Gallery, Councilman Simon Trautmann (Richfield, MN), and Councilman Steve Fletcher (Minneapolis, MN).
STRATEGIC PR AND COALITON BUILDING
BIPARTISAN COALTION BUILDING and 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.
Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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