Michele Claibourn, PhD leads development of skills series' of PhD Plus Data Literacy. She serves as lead instructor of Data Literacy: R series every Spring semester.
Michele Claibourn is the Director of Research Data Services and the Social, Natural, and Engineering Sciences at the University of Virginia Library where she leads a team of statistical and computational consultants, data curation and data discovery librarians, research software specialists, and subject librarians. She is also the Co-Director of the CommPAS Lab where she works with community organizations to address data-driven research needs and leads the Public Interest Data Lab intended to provide data science experience to students in service of the public interest. In this work she has led or supervised multiple community-based research projects in the Charlottesville community, including racial equity studies for the City of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and he Thomas Jefferson Area Coalition for the Homeless. In 2019 she joined the Batten School’s Global Policy Center as a Faculty Affiliate and data science lead contributing to ongoing work to use advanced methods and machine learning to predict the onset, scope, and duration of humanitarian crises. She joined UVa’s Equity Center in 2020, directing the data science research within the center.