Rosa Brooks is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she also serves as co-director of the Center for Innovations in Community Safety. Ms. Brooks has also served as an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute, a Senior Fellow in the New America/ASU Future of Security Program, an HFX Fellow for the Halifax International Security Forum, and a founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). From 2016 to 2020 she was a reserve police officer with Washington DC's Metropolitan Police Department. From 2009 to 2011, Ms. Brooks served as Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy. She previously wrote weekly opinion columns for Foreign Policy and The Los Angeles Times. Her 2016 book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016 and 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, was a Washington Post Best Book of 2021.