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'''Asha Rangappa''' (born 1974) is an American lawyer, former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, senior lecturer at [[Yale University]]’s [[Jackson Institute for Global Affairs]], and a commentator on [[CNN]]. She was previously an |
'''Asha Rangappa''' (born 1974) is an American lawyer, former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent, senior lecturer at [[Yale University]]’s [[Jackson Institute for Global Affairs]], and a commentator on [[CNN]]. She was previously an associate dean at [[Yale Law School]].''<ref>{{cite tweet |user=AshaRangappa_ |number=1154596500338597888 |date=July 25, 2019 |title=I was born in 1974. I'm not a Millenial. |link=https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1154596500338597888 |access-date=August 11, 2019 }}</ref>'' Currently, she is serving as a Senior Lecturer at [[Jackson Institute for Global Affairs|Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asha Rangappa – Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs|url=https://jackson.yale.edu/person/asha-rangappa/|access-date=2022-02-09|language=en-US}}</ref> Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of ''[[Just Security]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Asha Rangappa |url=https://www.justsecurity.org/author/rangappaasha/ |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=[[Just Security]] |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
Asha Rangappa
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Born | Renuka Asha Rangappa 1974 (age 49–50) |
Education | Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Asha Rangappa (born 1974) is an American lawyer, former FBI agent, senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a commentator on CNN. She was previously an associate dean at Yale Law School.[1] Currently, she is serving as a Senior Lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[2] Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of Just Security.[3]
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]
She 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 did 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]
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 a director of admissions at Jackson Institute for 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 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.
Rangappa married a fellow FBI agent in 2005; they later divorced. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut, with her son and daughter.[4][22]
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