Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything. Brooks served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from April 2009 to July 2011.

About Rosa Brooks in brief

Summary Rosa BrooksRosa Brooks is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. She is the author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Brooks served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, from April 2009 to July 2011. She has also taught at the University of Virginia School of Law, and worked as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute, George Soros’ philanthropic foundation.

Brooks has two children and is married to LTC Joseph Mouer, a now-retired Army Special Forces officer. Brooks is also a reserve police officer with the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan Police Department. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard and was a Marshall Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford.