Michele Claibourn
Faculty, Batten School Of Leadership And Public Policy
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolMichele Claibourn is a political scientist and data-driven research director with two decades of experience leading interdisciplinary teams at the University of Virginia, where she currently serves on the Batten School faculty and directs community-centered analysis for the Center for Community Partnerships. She combines rigorous academic training (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) with hands-on data science leadership—building research data services, founding UVa’s StatLab, and translating complex analyses into community-engaged policy impact. Her work focuses on action-based research that surfaces racial and social inequities to inform accountable governance and movement-building. Known for bridging academia, libraries, and public-sector partners, she routinely operationalizes datasets for practical policy use and civic accountability. Based in Charlottesville, she is especially interested in opportunities that apply data science toward economic and social justice.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Political Science, Ph.D. Political Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.A. Political Science, B.A. Political Science at Rice University
Github Skills (15)
data-processing8
python8
spring8
automation7
data-services4
region3
wifi3
science3
data-science2
react2
finance2
rvest1
typescript1
data-visualization1
visualization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mclaibourn/publicpresidency
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Scripts, workflows for extracting features from information streams
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
streamspythonextracting-featuresworkflows
virginiaequitycenter/summer-sandbox
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:134 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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