She earned her MFA in Studio Art at The University of Texas at Austin in 2014 and graduated with Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2006. At UT, Brooks was the 2013 recipient of a Powers Graduate Continuing Research Fellowship and the Learning Tuscany Teaching Scholar in 2013. Recently, her work was exhibited at Co-Lab Projects and Trinity University, and she has been a guest lecturer at Texas State University and MassArt.