Jessica Melugin is associate director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Her research focuses on technology issues including antitrust, online privacy, Internet taxation, telecommunications, social media content and net neutrality regulation. Her writings have appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, Fortune, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Washington Times, FoxNews.com, CNBC.com, various regional papers and she has been cited in Politico and U.S. News and World Report, among many other publications. Ms. Melugin has appeared on CSPAN's Washington Journal, CNBC's Power Lunch, and Varney & Co. on Fox Business Network. She's been featured on NPR's Marketplace, The David Webb Show on SiriusXM, and is regularly interviewed on terrestrial radio programs. 

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. She lives in Virginia's horse country with her children.