Emily Strentz

Emily Strentz is a legal assistant at Lavelle Law since January 2022, following a diverse career that includes roles such as a barista at Starbucks and a fitness supervisor at Schaumburg Park District. Prior experience includes serving as aquatics director at YMCA of the Pikes Peak Region, overseeing aquatics program development, staff management, and budget control, as well as managing fitness and aquatics at Addison Park District. Earlier roles included assistant pool manager at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Recreation, where responsibilities spanned lifeguard training, and teaching English as an assistant at Bologna Public Middle Schools. Emily Strentz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Global Studies and Italian from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, complemented by an Erasmus study abroad experience at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.