JENNA PROCHASKA

Jenna Prochaska is an Associate Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she teaches Property, Local Government Law, and Legal Profession. Professor 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 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 Master of Social Work degree from Loyola University Chicago in 2023.

Before coming to Utah, Professor Prochaska taught Property and Professional Responsibility at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She previously served as 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 practice experience. 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. Professor Prochaska draws on her practice experience to inform her teaching and research.