Deanna Troust is an award-winning communications strategist and educator whose career includes 30 years in social change communications, with over a decade in leadership at Vanguard Communications, plus several years in marketing and advertising for Fortune 500 companies.

She co-founded Truth in Common in 2017 in after the term “fake news” had entered U.S. discourse. She found that a politically diverse group could find common ground on the issue — especially when shown how information is being manipulated in digital spaces today.