Rosa Brooks is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown Law. She has worked previously in senior positions at the Defense Department and the State Department. Brooks’ articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal, and she spent four years as a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and another four as a columnist for Foreign Policy. Her 2016 book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016; it was named one of the five best books of the year by the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (2021) was named one of the best non-fiction books of the year by the Washington Post.
