Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks
Brooks in 2017
Brooks in 2017
Born
Rosa Ehrenreich

1970 (age 53–54)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Christ Church, Oxford (MSt)
Yale University (JD)
Political partyDemocratic
Parents
RelativesBen Ehrenreich (brother)

Rosa Brooks (née Ehrenreich; born 1970)[1] is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks is also an adjunct scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.

Brooks is a commentator on politics and foreign policy. She served as a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy and as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Brooks authored the 2016 book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything[2] and the 2021 book Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City, which is based on her five years as a reserve police officer in Washington, D.C.

At Georgetown Law, Brooks founded the Center for Innovations in Community Safety, formerly the Innovative Policing Program, which in 2017 launched the Police for Tomorrow Fellowship Program with Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. She founded the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the Transition Integrity Project. In 2021,[3] 2022[4] and 2023,[5] Washingtonian magazine listed Brooks as one of Washington's "most influential people."

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference scottgsherman-barbaraehrenreich was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Brooks, Rosa (July 25, 2017). How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-7787-0.
  3. ^ "Washington's Most Influential People". Washingtonian. February 25, 2021. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022.
  4. ^ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People". Washingtonian. May 3, 2022. Archived from the original on July 14, 2022.
  5. ^ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People of 2023". Washingtonian. April 27, 2023. Archived from the original on July 5, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.