
NON-PARTISAN + NON-PROFIT
The IDH is phase 3 of a 20 year "Manhattan Project" -- top experts and 100s of students, teachers, lawyers, artists, & citizens -- to "align" tech and humanity.
It started when Dr. M "crossed the filter bubble" and became a "diversity hire" at a Bible college to stop civil war.
It worked.


















We are survivors of post-digital civic collapse in Minneapolis. (And almost lost this unicorn solution for America, fixing AI, repairing our colleges, and stopping civil war.)
The "straight" version of our story made CNN and cops cry (and was fairly traumatic to keep saying).
Now we tell it funny. But this situation is deadly serious.
Thank you to these reporters for recognizing our "unicorn" ability to empower students to bring citizens, religious groups, and politicians together.
NBC, CBS, FORBES,
NEXT GEN POLITICS
HUMAN LAWYER
OMAHA WORLD HERALD
OPEN SOURCE (CANADA)
NEBRASKA LAWYER
PIONEER PRESS
On the left and right, our students (which is rad) and team work for + advise the very top echelons of the RNC/DNC, appear in the NYT, and are recognized (by Forbes, SXSW EDU, Bar Associatoins, etc) as international experts.
"Based on available evidence, no other known project has demonstrated the same breadth of bipartisan, Constitutional, and practical impact across
AI alignment, disinformation, privacy, and free speech—with a single, teachable methodology and real-world, peer-reviewed results."
Heads up, this is not our first rodeo, but this is a brand new (temp) website (#safety #minneapolis). Not seeing something? Email us at mckain.3@gmail.com
"IMPOSSIBLE" BI-PARTISAN + MULTI-FAITH COALITIONS and CIVIL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
The upside of using a 2,000-year-old method -- already in the DNA of the Constitution and our civic republic --
that the academics agreed was a neutral, interdisciplinary Esperanto 20 years ago.
AND WHY WE CAN GET "BOTH SIDES" (MAGA-->SJW)
+ Christian/Muslim/Jewish leaders and orgs to work together on the tech dividing us.
ONE SOURCE OF "META-TRUTH THAT DOESN'T PICK SIDES BUT RE-GROUNDS SHARED REALITY.
ONE SOURCE OF "META-TRUTH THAT DOESN'T PICK SIDES BUT RE-GROUNDS SHARED REALITY.
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DR. AARON MCKAIN, M.S.L.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
SHEA SULLIVAN
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
A. MONGE, M.ED
BOARD / CO-FOUNDER / DIR OF EDUCATION
M. MCKAIN, CPA
BOARD / TREASURER / RETIRED TECH CFO
PROF. A. RAYMOND, JD, PHD
BOARD / CHAIR: INDIANA U
EMERITUS
T. FREEMAN, JD, MBA
CO-FOUNDER. / FMR BOARD / FMR DIR OF RESEARCH / FMR ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL (NE)
DR. S. HAGAN (PASTOR)
FMR BOARD / FMR PRESIDENT: N. CENTRAL U
S. TRAUTMANN, JD
FMR BOARD / CITY COUNCILMAN: RICHFILD, MN
PROF. D. LIBENGOD, PHD
FMR BOARD / DEAN: N. CENTRAL U

DIRECTORS: CURRENT + EMERITUS
T. FREEMAN, J.D., MBA
S. HAGLUND
A. MCKAIN, PHD, M.S.L.
A. SALLEE
(U OF TEXAS LAW)
H. GRUBBS
(FMR ASSOCIATE DIR)
M. HEADLEY
S. HALL
(HEAD WRITER)

CURRENT and EMERITUS
A. AHERNS
M. OLEJNICAK
(AUTHOR: THE SOCIAL MEDIA)
E. ATAMOV
M. BARTZ
C. HART
M. BRITTO
K. HUERTH

M. EXTED, MSW
PROF D. SCHNEIDER, PHD
(EX CAMBRIDGE; EX HAIFA U)
PROF. M. BERKSON, PHD
(CHAIR: HAMLINE U; NAMESAKE: FIRE'S "COURAGEOUS COLLEAGUE AWARD)
S. PEDERSEN
(IAA RESEARCH FELLOW)

S. ADAMS
(FORBES: TOP 50 WOMEN IN AI)
DIRECTORS: CURRENT + EMERITUS
J . HERNANDEZ
M. JENSEN
R. WINKEL
D. STRATTON
S. SULLIVAN
W. CREGUT
CO-FOUNDER / FMR ASSOC DIR
B. BYINGTON
J. ASHEIM
I. KREBBS
P. CARROL


A. MONGE, M.ED
DIRECTOR / CO-FOUNDER
E. OTTO-PATEL, M.ED
FMR DIRECTOR / FMR ADL
(CURRENT HEAD OF GLOBAL LEARNING AT FANCY ORG)
DR. D. ALLEN, M.ED
FACULTY FELLOW / FMR ST. PAUL SCHOOLS
DR. P. MCCORMICK
FACULTY FELLOW / OHIO STATE U.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
CURRENT + EMERITUS
M. MORALES
CO-FOUNDER
R. SWANTEK
R. YANG
S THOR
C. GALLEY
E. MILLER
(FACULTY ASSOCIATE)
R. BUSSE
N. NEWBAUHER
K. MARSHALL
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