Courtney Michaluk Joslin

Courtney Michaluk is an alumna of the Mercatus Center MA Fellowship at George Mason University and a Commercial Freedom Fellow at the R Street Institute. Previously, she was a policy analyst at the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University. Her work has been published in Politico, The Huffington Post, Washington Examiner, and a number of other outlets. She has also worked with state legislatures on prison reform and occupational license reform. She currently works on occupational licensing and birth control deregulation in the states.

Courtney received a BS in accounting from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she conducted research on ethics education in undergraduate accounting programs while completing the Chancellor’s Honors Program. She then spent a year in the Koch Associate Program before becoming an MA Fellow. Her research interests include tax policy, development economics, and public perception of economic ideas.