Michele is Director the Director of Equitable Analysis at The Equity Center at UVA and a general faculty member in the Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy. She has directed multiple collaborative studies of racial disparity in the Charlottesville child welfare system in partnership with the Department of Social Services, is a lead developer of the Charlottesville Regional Equity Atlas, and is committed to community partnerships that build information resources for promoting equity and justices in our region. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she specialized in the quantitative study of political behavior and social justice.