What to Expect Between Now and Inauguration Day: A Conversation with Rosa Brooks

AGS welcomes guest Rosa Brooks for a talk entitled, What to Expect Between Now and Inauguration Day. She will join us on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 from 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM.

Rosa Brooks holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. She also serves as Georgetown Law's Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes.

Brooks has combined law teaching and scholarship with stints in government service and a career in journalism. From 2009-2011, Brooks served as Counselor to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele. In July 2011, she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and as a consultant for Human Rights Watch and other NGOS and philanthropic foundations. From April 2016 to November 2020, she served as a reserve police officer with the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. In 2019, she received the Chief of Police Special Award.

Brooks co-founded the Brennan Center Democracy Futures Project in 2024 and the Transition Integrity Project in 2020, both of which used "war gaming" methodologies to explore political futures. She was also a co-founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS) and Georgetown's Center on Innovations in Public Safety, and has served as an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute, an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America and an HFX Fellow with the Halifax International Security Forum.

Brooks is the author of How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2016), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016; it was also shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and named one of the five best non-fiction books of the year by The Military Times and the Council on Foreign Relations. Her most recent book, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City (Penguin, 2021), was named one of the fifty best books of 2021 by the Washington Post. She is currently working on a book about land, power and identity in the American West (forthcoming, Penguin, 2026).