Rosa Brooks (née Ehrenreich; born 1970)[1] is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice.

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.

She was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a board member of Amnesty International USA and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

[8] Brooks served on the board of the Open Society Foundation's US Programs Fund and as a senior advisor at the US Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

[8] Brooks has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times (June 2005 to April 9, 2009)[9][10] and, since 2007, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

[8] From April 2009 to July 2011, she was on public service leave from Georgetown to serve as counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy.

[11] Brooks currently serves on the board of the Harper's Magazine Foundation, the Advisory Committee of National Security Action, the Steering Committee of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the board of the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative.

In addition to serving as a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Foreign Policy, Brooks was a founder of Foreign Policy's weekly podcast, The E.R.,[21] and is now a member of the Deep State Radio podcast team.