Lonnie Soury

Media director and advisory committee

Lonnie Soury is president of Soury Communications, Inc., a full service communications company specializing in public relations, public policy, government affairs, media and crisis communication, advertising, marketing and special events. Lonnie has thirty years experience in the communications field, having managed some of the industry’s largest and most prominent businesses.He has a wide national media network and is a recognized expert in media relations and public policy.

In addition to an impressive roster of corporate and government clients, he is a leader in the innocence movement. He led the public campaign to free Marty Tankleff and Damien Echols of the West Memphis 3 in their wrongful conviction cases. He founded falseconfessions.org and is a frequent speaker and interview subject on matters of false confessions and issues related to innocent people being convicted of crimes.