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Kate Mitchell
Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Health Justice Project
kmitchell9@luc.edu

Kate Mitchell joined the Health Justice Project in August 2017 after more than 16 years practicing and teaching in the areas of poverty law, children’s rights and health law. Professor Mitchell has extensive experience representing children and families in poverty in access to health care and public benefits matters, special education matters, housing and family law, juvenile delinquency and prison condition cases, and other general civil law matters. She has also been involved in local, state, and national policy work in the areas of access to healthcare, education, and juvenile justice. 

Jenna Prochaska
Clinical Teaching Fellow
jprochaska@luc.edu

Jenna Prochaska is a clinical teaching fellow in the Health Justice Project supervising student case work through an interdisciplinary medical-legal partnership and teaching seminars on lawyering skills and the intersection of poverty, health, and the law. Jenna brings to her work with the HJP a broad range of public interest legal experience in Chicago with a particular focus on poverty law and health care access. She has worked at Legal Aid Chicago, the ACLU of Illinois, and at the Shriver Center on Poverty Law engaging in litigation, policy advocacy, and community outreach. Jenna was drawn to clinical teaching after her own clinical education experience as a teaching assistant and student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Mona Elgindy
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Health Justice Project
melgind@luc.edu

Mona Elgindy is a returning Loyola Law alum joining the Health Justice Project Clinic as an Adjunct Clinical Professor. She currently supervises three unique medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) at Legal Aid Chicago. Since 2013, she has been committed to the protection of vulnerable adults in the context of health equity and poverty law. Her legal experience covers public benefits, domestic violence, consumer law, housing, nursing home discharges, with emphasis on protecting older adults from elder abuse and financial exploitation. Prior to law school, she was a high school teacher, and she brings her passion to mentor students to this new role.

Meghan Carter
Adjunct Professor
Mcarter12@luc.edu

Meghan P. Carter co-teaches the Health Justice Policy Practicum. Meghan is a Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Council for Health Justice, were she works to advance health rights through advocacy and litigation. Meghan joined Legal Council in 2018 after practicing at Legal Aid Chicago and the Illinois Attorney General’s Disability Rights Bureau.

Meghan was the first in her family to graduate college, earning a B.A. from Brandeis University cum laude in English and American literature and philosophy. Meghan graduated cum laude from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and was awarded an Equal Justice Works Fellowship upon graduation. Meghan received the Loitman Barron Scholarship in Legal Studies at Brandeis, and was recognized in 2015 by Northwestern Law for her commitment to public interest law.

Carrie Chapman
Adjunct Professor
cchapman@legalcouncil.org

As the Senior Director of Litigation and Advocacy, Carrie oversees litigation, legislation, and administrative advocacy at Legal Council for Health Justice. Carrie has extensive experience serving low-income people through litigation. She has litigated complex cases on the Medicaid program, education access for children with disabilities, immigrant access to benefits, and hospital charity care.