Jane Shaw Stroup (who also writes as Jane S. Shaw) is chairperson of the Raleigh-based James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, where she retired as president in 2015. Currently, she is an editorial consultant for the John Locke Foundation. She is a coauthor of the new edition of Common Sense Economics (St. Martin’s Press).
Before coming to North Carolina in 2006, Jane was a senior fellow with PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center, in Bozeman, Montana. She wrote and edited many articles about what became known as free market environmentalism. She coauthored Facts, Not Fear: Teaching Children about the Environment with Michael Sanera (Regnery) and co-edited A Guide to Smart Growth with Ron Utt (Heritage Foundation). Before joining PERC, she was an associate economics editor of Business Week in New York City.
Jane has a bachelor’s degree in English from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in history from North Carolina State University. She was married to the late Richard L. Stroup.
Photo is by Karlyn Mitchell.
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