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DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL

DR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSLDR. AARON MCKAIN, MSL
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SPEAKING EVENTS

20 YEARS OF THE STORIES & SOLUTIONS YOUR AUDIENCE NEEDS TO HEAR.

To win the 21st century and talk to (& work with) the "other side" again.

PRESS: CBS, NBC, FORBES, OPEN SOURCE (ETC)

AI LAW & POLICY + DISINFO + FREE SPEECH + PRIVACY + IMPOSSIBLE POLITICAL COALITIONS + COLLEGE FIXES

TALKING TO THE "OTHER SIDE" + RESILIENCE & LEADERSHIP = STOP CIVIL WAR

I KEEP THIS VERY SIMPLE.

BOOKING

Any topic in the orbit of what's on this page is fair game: You can pick or I can pick.

Email me the "who," the "when," and what you want to accomplish and we'll take it from there. 

CONTACT

I SPOKE TO MY 1ST CROWD OF 1000'S AT 17

I speak left, right, nerd, and regular Gen Xer from Nebraska fluently. I can explain tech and 21st century America chaos to anyone. 


And my students think I should have been a game show host.   They aren't wrong.

20 YEARS AS SOCRATIC PROF

20 YEARS AS SOCRATIC PROF

Using whatever is on the news that day (on the fly) to explain this tech + civil war + college mess.

FORMAT + AUDIENCES

20 YEARS AS SOCRATIC PROF

I prefer crowd-work, Q & A, or running it like a "class."


(To give you instant action-steps, crowd-sourced footage.)


 But monologues are also cool. 

(Ex-speechwriter/debate nerd.)

I WORK ON A SLIDING SCALE.

I WORK ON A SLIDING SCALE.

I ask that clients with means pay fair market value to offset the folks who can't pay much or anything.

THANK YOU TO MY PARTNERS, CLIENTS, & ALLIES

MY STORY IS BLACK MIRROR BANANAS

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

BOOK PITCH/STORIES HERE: We tell IT funny b/C the "straight" version made reporters and cops cry.

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.

INSTITUTE OF AESTHETIC ADVOCACY (Co-Founder/Creative Dir.)

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 & ALGORITHMS

POLICY / LAW / GOVERNANCE / ED / CULTURE


This is a crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.

Everyone backed the wrong experts.  

I taught college kids how to get to the 30-yard line on state-level AI alignment in 2022 as homework. 

AI AND ALGORITHMS

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.


DISINFORMATION AND POLITICAL DIVISION

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)

FIRST AMENDMENT DETAILS

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.

education solutions

STRATEGIC PR & COALITION BUILDING

BIPARTISAN COALITION BUILDING & CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

  

"Impossible" coalitions, agreements, & 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.

strategic pr and coalitions

BIPARTISAN COALTION BUILDING & CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

DISPUTE RESOLUTION & DISINFORMATION NETWORKS

Action-oriented events and platforms

(on all the 3rd rail issues) 

to forge new political alliances..

ARTS ADVOCACY & CROSS-CULTURAL CIVIC FORUMS

ARTS ADVOCACY & CROSS-CULTURAL CIVIC FORUMS

BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING

LEADERSHIP, RESILIENCE, & GETTING REAL ABOUT PTSD

MENTAL HEALTH

I'm a little picky about this one.  But if you have a hard-to reach crowd that needs to hear it, I'm in.

SPEAKING EVENTS

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

Schools | Companies

Governments | Communities

SPEAKING

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

Attorneys | Policy Makers

Teachers | Administrators

Students | Programmers

TRAININGS

CONSULTING

TRAININGS & WORKSHOPS

CONSULTING

AI | Disinformation

Free Speech | Privacy

CONSULTING
MY CAREER IS BLACK MIRROR + DEAD POETS' SOCIETY BANANAS

HUMANITIES + LAW + AI + DISINFO + FREE SPEECH + CIVIC REFORM

20 years leading experts (& 1000s of students, lawyers, teachers, & artists) trying to give our country its best chance to win the 21st century and align tech w/ the Constitution, reality, and humanity in time.


This page explains what I do.  

And why I'm a unicorn.
 

Book pitch & stories are here.
(Thank God they're funny.)

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