Alice Setrini
Alice Setrini is an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University Simmons Law School. Prior to joining the faculty at Simmons, she was a clinical teaching fellow in the Health Justice Project at Loyola University School of Law teaching client advocacy in an interdisciplinary, experiential learning environment. She was previously the executive director of the Jaharis Health Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, where she consistently centered racial and health equity in the institute programming, curriculum, and scholarship.
She came to higher education from a career in legal services, starting as a staff attorney on Chicago’s Westside, and then as the manager of Legal Aid Chicago’s Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLP) Project beginning in 2015. Setrini is a first-generation Latinx American who uses a career in the law to give back to her community, and live up to the sacrifices made on her behalf. Setrini’s experience collaborating in multidisciplinary settings to maximize both health system efficiency and improvement in health outcomes for individuals through legal interventions informs her work advocating for health equity as a mechanism for alleviating poverty and dismantling the systems that create health disparities