Faculty

Michele Claiborn

Michele
Claibourn

Director of Equitable Analysis, The Equity Center; Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Data Science
Equity Center & Garrett Hall

Michele Claibourn is Director of Equitable Analysis for The Equity Center at UVA and an assistant professor of public policy and data science at the University of Virginia. 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.

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Gerald Higginbotham

Gerald
Higginbotham

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Psychology

Gerald Higginbotham is an assistant professor of public policy and psychology at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Utilizing social and cultural psychological insights, Higginbotham researches the imprint of history on people’s modern social perceptions and policy attitudes, and the psychological underpinnings of how people perceive history and its consequences. 

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