Andrée Aelion Brooks is a journalist, author and lecturer and a former contributing columnist and news writer for the New York Times; currently specializing in Jewish history. Brooks the founder and first president of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale. The program, started in 1993, trains women from all parts of the U.S. and abroad to run winning campaigns for elective office (operated as an independent organization under the umbrella of Yale Law School). Her books and articles have received many awards Her ground-breaking biography of Dona Gracia Nasi, the richest woman in Renaissance Europe who ran an escape network, was a finalist in the National Jewish Book Awards and is now in pre-production for a TV mini-series She is the author of Russian Dance, another award-winning book about a Bolshevik spy. She is also the author and teacher of a children’s program in Sephardic history and culture called Out of Spain. An earlier book, Children of Fast Track Parents, was made into an Emmy-nominated PBS documentary. In November, 2013, she was honored by the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. She can be reached at andreebrooks@hotmail.com
