Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks joined the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001 after a fellowship year at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From 2000-01 she also served as a consultant to the Open Society Institute and to Human Rights Watch.

Until August 1999, Brooks worked at the U.S. Department of State, where she was Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. At the State Department, she participated in the U.S. negotiating team for the International Criminal Court and worked extensively in trouble spots such as Kosovo and Sierra Leone.

While at U.Va, she has continued her active involvement with various human rights organizations and foundations. Brooks served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA in 2002-03, and she also serves on the Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Her articles and op-eds have appeared in publications including the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.