[2] Brooks is currently the Associate Vice President of Faculty Advancement and Student Success at San Diego State University (SDSU).
The Huffington Post writes, "Brooks specializes in explaining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to non-Mormons, and in presenting a different way to be Mormon to those steeped in its orthodoxy.
"[10] She wrote a question-and-answer blog from 2010 to 2014[11] called "Ask Mormon Girl" with the tagline "unorthodox answers from an imperfect source".
She also wrote as a senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches from 2011 to 2014, frequently addressing Mormon issues.
[12][13] In early 2012, she self-published a memoir called The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith, which was later picked up by Simon & Schuster and published by them in August 2012.