Jessica Melugin

Director at Competitive Enterprise Institute

Speaker

Jessica is a champion in the field of free-market technology policy. Her voice and research focus on the contemporary technology issues arising through antitrust litigations, privacy, free speech, and social media content regulation. Her writings and engagements have spoken volumes about congressional legislation like Section 230’s impacts to consumer welfare as well as First Amendment free speech rights. Her publications have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fox News, USA Today, Bloomberg Law, National Review, Forbes, and others. She has been cited in the Washington Post, Politico, and Variety, among other publications.

Ms. Melugin graduated magna cum laude from Claremont McKenna College with a degree in government and art history. Her honors thesis explored the development of American antitrust law as it pertains to the Microsoft trial. Prior to CEI, Ms. Melugin worked at the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute.