Dr. Michele Claibourn
As the Director of Equitable Analysis, Michele Claibourn leads the UVA Equity Center’s community-engaged data science work in support of a more equitable and just region. Michele 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 courses on Imagining Equitable Policy and Public Interest Data: Ethics and Practice, and a courtesy appointment in the School of Data Science, where she helped launch a Community Data Fellows program.
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Where do landlords engage in more eviction actions? What characteristics of renters or landlords increase the practice of serial filing? There is widespread interest in using administrative data -- information collected by government and agencies in the implementation of public programs -- to evaluate systems and promote most just outcomes. Working with the Civil Court Data Initiative of Legal Services Corporation, we use data collected from civil court records in Virginia to analyze the behavior of landlords. Expanding on our Virginia Evictors Catalog, we use data on court evictions to build additional data tools to support the work of legal and housing advocates and model key eviction outcomes to contribute to our understanding of landlord behavior.