Brook holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Royal Military College of Canada, and an MA in Human Security and Peacebuilding from Royal Roads University. In 2022, Brook completed the LLM International Human Rights Law and Practice at CAHR, for which she was awarded the York Law School Prize for Best Overall Mark in Programme and was part of the project placement group to receive the Sam Pegram Human Rights Placement Award for demonstrating the values of inclusion, transparency, teamwork, integrity, and centring the needs and voices of research participants. Brook’s LLM dissertation “Beyond Gender Advice: NATO’s Operationalisation of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda” examined NATO’s gender mainstreaming process and considered the potential of adding Human Rights Advisors to the NATO military staff structure.

 

Brook has over 25 years of experience as an Officer in the Canadian Army. During her career she deployed on numerous peace support operations, notably as part of the International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) in Sierra Leone, a multinational effort to support the Sierra Leonian government build effective and democratically accountable armed forces in compliance with the Lomé Peace Agreement (2001); the Multinational Force Observer (MFO) Mission monitoring the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel (2007); and the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) for Israel and the Palestinian Authority tasked with advising the Palestinian Authority on security sector reform, and providing training as part of international efforts to create a self-sustaining Palestinian security sector (2012). In 2015, Brook was posted to the International Peace Support Training Center in Nairobi to develop and deliver logistics operational support training to African Union security forces. Now retired from the army she works part-time delivering Equalities Act and anti-racism training to the West Yorkshire Police as part of their commitment to deliver on
the Police Race Action Plan.