January 2021 - Present

Approp- Health & Human Services; Appropriations-Public Safety; Financial Institutions & Licensing (Vice-Chairperson); Health Care Licenses; Personnel & Pensions; Prescription Drug Affordability; Trans: Regulations, Roads & Bridges; Medicaid & Managed Care Subcommitte (Sub-Chairperson); Labor & Commerce.

Full-time legislator; B.A. in Justice Studies and minor in Political Science, Northeastern Illinois University; Masters candidate in Urban Planning and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago; board member, Southwest Suburban Immigrant Project; former director of programs, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

Rachel Ventura