Asha Rangappa

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Asha Rangappa
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Renuka Asha Rangappa

(1974-11-15) November 15, 1974 (age 50)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Education Princeton University (BA)
Yale University (JD)
Children2

Renuka Asha Rangappa (born November 15, 1974) [1] is an American lawyer, former FBI agent, senior lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. She was previously an associate dean at Yale Law School. [2] She is serving as a senior lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. [3] Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of Just Security . [4]

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Early life

Rangappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents from Karnataka, India, [5] 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. [6] Her father is an anesthesiologist and worked at a Virginia army base. [6] Her mother is an accountant. [6] As a child she participated in beauty pageants. [6]

Rangappa grew up in Hampton, Virginia, [6] 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. [7] [8] Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studying constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia. [6] She graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. in 2000 and completed an internship with the US Attorneys office in Baltimore. [6] [5] 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. [9] In 2003, she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut. [10]

Career

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, [9] and became one of the first Indian Americans to hold the position. [11] [5]

In 2005, Rangappa left the FBI to get married and have children. [5] She returned to Yale to become an associate dean of its law school. [12] Currently she serves as a director of admissions at Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. [13] She has taught at Yale University, [14] Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses. [10]

She has published op-eds in HuffPost, [15] The Washington Post , [16] The New York Times , Time , [17] The Atlantic , [10] and The Wall Street Journal. [18] She has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, NPR, [19] and other networks as a commentator. She serves as a legal and national security analyst for CNN. [20] [21]

Rangappa is a member of the board of directors for the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut, [22] the Connecticut Society of Former FBI Agents, [22] and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.

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. [5] [23]

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  1. ↑ @asha.rangappa (November 16, 2023). "Feeling very blessed on my birthday! The orchid is from my son, who wrote in his card that "purple orchids symbolize respect and admiration" ❤️😭 50, here I come!" . Retrieved 2023-11-16– via Instagram.
  2. ↑ @AshaRangappa_ (July 25, 2019). "I was born in 1974. I'm not a Millenial" (Tweet). Retrieved August 11, 2019– via Twitter.
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  22. 1 2 "South Asian Bar Association of North America". www.sabanorthamerica.com. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
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