Rosa Brooks
Rosa Brooks 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'' 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 and 2022, ''Washingtonian'' magazine listed Brooks as one of Washington's "most influential people." Provided by Wikipedia
