Bryan Bouchard is the Police Information Officer with Arizona State University’s Office of Media Relations & Strategic Communications. Bryan joined ASU in 2024 after serving as the Media Relations Director for the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County in Phoenix. Prior to that, he served 21 years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. At ASU, he is responsible for building, maintaining and enhancing relationships between the ASU Police Department and local, statewide, and national media organizations. Bryan also functions as a resource for the department to communicate its responsibility in maintaining a safe environment to the public, ASU community, internal staff, stakeholders, elected officials, and appropriate national audiences. Lastly, he is responsible for rapidly responding to on-campus or ASU-related emergent situations, regardless of when they happen.
Prior to ASU, Bryan served as the Media Relations Director for the Superior Court of Arizona in Maricopa County in Phoenix where he led a team of communicators at the fourth largest trial court in the nation as well as the affiliated Adult and Juvenile Probation Departments.
Before the Court, he served in various military assignments across the U.S. and overseas including Japan, Afghanistan and Iraq. His career highlights include serving as the Director of Public Affairs for Twelfth Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Southern at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona from 2014-2017. In that role, he was responsible for the internal and external communications planning and execution for dozens of stateside Air Force bases as well as U.S. Air Force operations within a 31-country area of responsibility consisting of Latin America and the Caribbean. During his military career, he deployed to support Air Force and Special Operations missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and across the globe. While deployed to Iraq and later to Afghanistan, he served as the Public Affairs Officer assigned to multiple Special Operations Task Forces preempting and countering enemy propaganda. Additionally, he served as the lead Air Force Public Affairs Officer for Afghanistan from 2015-2016. Prior to his retirement in 2017, Bryan was named the Air Force’s top Public Affairs practitioner in the service for 2016 amongst all 4,000 enlisted, officers, and civilians in the career field.
Bryan graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a bachelor of fine arts degree in digital photography. He also earned a bachelor of arts degree from Thomas Edison State University. Additionally, Bryan graduated from the Defense Information School Public Affairs Officer Qualification Course in Fort Meade, Md., and received the Distinguished Body of Work notoriety at the school’s Intermediate Photojournalism Course. He is also a graduate of the Defense Language Institute-Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, Calif.