Jenna Prochaska (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at UIC Law, where she teaches Property and Professional Responsibility. Prochaska’s research focuses on issues related to fair housing and access to justice, and she serves on the Executive Board of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Poverty Law.
Prochaska received a B.A. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2010; a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2014; and a M.A. in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago in 2023.
Prochaska also has a broad range of public interest legal experience. She provided direct representation to low-income Chicagoans in housing and consumer matters at Legal Aid Chicago. At the ACLU of Illinois, she worked to protect and expand access to reproductive health care through litigation, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and community education. At the Shriver Center on Poverty Law, she engaged in focused advocacy to reform policies that harm low-income tenants. At Loyola University Chicago’s Health Justice Project clinic, a medical-legal partnership, she also supervised law students, medical students, and social work students representing low-income clients.