Presentation Type
Presentation
Faculty Mentor’s Full Name
Frederick Peck
Faculty Mentor’s Department
Department of Mathematics
Abstract / Artist's Statement
Credit scores are used around the world to measure creditworthiness in lending, but they can also act as barriers to entry into financial systems and as barriers to economic mobility. The purpose of our project is to raise awareness of how credit scores function as these barriers, as well as provide valuable information to help people enact solutions to these problems at a variety of levels.
Our team has put together a series of interviews with credit scoring experts from home and abroad to give their perspectives on the ways credit scores are used and how they affect people’s lives. The interviews will stream as a podcast and some of the speakers will return to participate in a Mansfield Dialogue through the Mansfield Center. The response of the Missoula community to these discussions will be evaluated through measurements of viewership of the dialogue and podcast, engagement on social media, comments in the website forum, and feedback in the Mansfield Dialogue post-talk survey.
Category
Franke Global Leadership Initiative
The Global Credit Score Panel
UC 220
Credit scores are used around the world to measure creditworthiness in lending, but they can also act as barriers to entry into financial systems and as barriers to economic mobility. The purpose of our project is to raise awareness of how credit scores function as these barriers, as well as provide valuable information to help people enact solutions to these problems at a variety of levels.
Our team has put together a series of interviews with credit scoring experts from home and abroad to give their perspectives on the ways credit scores are used and how they affect people’s lives. The interviews will stream as a podcast and some of the speakers will return to participate in a Mansfield Dialogue through the Mansfield Center. The response of the Missoula community to these discussions will be evaluated through measurements of viewership of the dialogue and podcast, engagement on social media, comments in the website forum, and feedback in the Mansfield Dialogue post-talk survey.