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Asha Rangappa
American lawyer and former FBI agent From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Renuka Asha Rangappa (born November 15, 1974)[1] is an American lawyer, former FBI agent, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. She was previously an associate dean at Yale Law School.[2] Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of Just Security.[3]
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Rangappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents from Karnataka, India,[4] who immigrated to the US in 1970. She told Elle that her parents "came under a provision where the government was specially looking for doctors," under the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.[5] Her father is an anesthesiologist and worked at a Virginia army base.[5] Her mother is an accountant.[5] As a child she participated in beauty pageants.[5]
Rangappa grew up in Hampton, Virginia,[5] and graduated from Kecoughtan High School. She graduated cum laude with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1996 after completing a 136-page long senior thesis, titled "The Rule of Law: Reconciling, Judicial Institution Building and U.S. Counternarcotics Policy in Colombia", under the supervision of John Dilulio.[6][7] Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studying constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia.[5] She graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. in 2000 and completed an internship with the US Attorneys office in Baltimore.[5][4] and took a clerkship serving the Honorable Juan R. Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[8] In 2003, she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut.[9]
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In 2001, Rangappa began her FBI training in Quantico, Virginia. After graduation from Quantico Academy, she moved to New York City where she took a job as an FBI special agent, specializing in counterintelligence investigations,[8] and became one of the first Indian Americans to hold the position.[10][4]
In 2005, Rangappa left the FBI to get married and have children.[4] She returned to Yale to become an associate dean of its law school.[11] Currently she serves as Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs.[12] She has taught at Yale University,[13] Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses.[9]
She has published op-eds in HuffPost,[14] The Washington Post,[15] The New York Times, Time,[16] The Atlantic,[9] and The Wall Street Journal.[17] She has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, NPR,[18] and other networks as a commentator. She serves as a legal and national security analyst for CNN.[19][20]
Rangappa is a member of the board of directors for the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut,[21] the Connecticut Society of Former FBI Agents,[21] and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
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Personal life
Rangappa was previously married to a fellow FBI agent, Andrew Dodd, in 2005; they later divorced in 2011. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with her son and daughter.[4][22]
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