Jenna Prochaska
Assistant Professor of Law
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Jenna Prochaska joins the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law faculty as an Assistant Professor and will teach first-year Property. Professor Prochaska’s research focuses on issues related to fair housing and access to justice, and she serves on the Association of American Law Schools Section on Poverty Law. Prochaska received a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2010; a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2014; and a Masters of Social Work from Loyola University Chicago in 2023.
Prior to joining the faculty at UIC Law, Professor Prochaska was a Clinical Teaching Fellow with Loyola University Chicago’s Health Justice Project clinic, where she supervised law students, medical students, and social work students representing low-income clients in a medical-legal partnership. She also taught interdisciplinary seminar courses focused on lawyering skills and a range of issues at the intersection of health, housing, and poverty law.
Professor Prochaska has a broad range of public interest legal experience in Chicago. At Legal Aid Chicago, she represented low-income Chicagoans in housing and consumer matters. 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. While at the Shriver Center, Prochaska helped to develop cutting edge fair housing litigation and legislation, collaborating with movement partners and lawmakers, leading to the enactment of a law protecting domestic violence survivors and individuals with disabilities from being evicted based on calls for emergency assistance. Professor Prochaska has drawn on her practice experience to inform her teaching and research. Her article, Breaking Free from “Crime-Free”: State-Level Responses to Harmful Housing Ordinances, 27 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 259 (2023), was recently published in the Lewis & Clark Law Review.