Michele Claibourn

As the Director of Equitable Analysis for The Equity Center at UVA, Michele Claibourn leads the Center’s community-engaged data science work in support of a more equitable and just region. She has directed or supervised multiple community-based research projects in the Charlottesville community, including racial equity studies for the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and the Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. She is currently part of an NSF-Funded Coastal Futures Grant to build a climate equity atlas for Virginia’s Eastern Shore.

Claibourn works to connect the developing data expertise of UVA students to the community as well through her faculty appointment in the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy where she teaches Imagining Equitable Policy and Public Interest Data: Ethics and Practice. She has previously co-taught Saving Lives with Data and, as a first-gen college student herself, she helped develop and co-teach the first Project First Gen+ class at UVA. She currently holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Data Science, where she helped launch a Community Data Fellows program.