Brodi is Special Counsel to the General Counsel, Department of Defense and an officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. She recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University where she served as the Government Department's Lead Teaching Fellow, as a Graduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and as president of the Harvard cycling team. Prior to her Ph.D. studies, Brodi received a J.D. from Yale Law School where she was part of the Information Society Project, the Yale Journal of Law and Technology and she was named an Olin Fellow in Law, Economics and Public Policy. Brodi received a B.A. in political science from U.C. Berkeley and she is a member of the Bar of Massachusetts.