Rosa Brooks is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a Berndard Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009-June 2011, she served as Counselor to the Under Secretary fo Defense for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense. From 2005-2009, she was an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and has been a frequent guest on MSNBC and Bloggingheads TV, Brooks has also blogged at Slate Magazine's XX Factor.