Asha Rangappa (born 1974) is an American lawyer, former

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agent, senior lecturer at

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’s

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, and a commentator on

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and

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. She was previously an associate dean at

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.' She is serving as a senior lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of ''

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''.

Early life

Rangappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents from

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, India, 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

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. Her father is an anesthesiologist and worked at a Virginia army base. Her mother is an accountant. As a child she participated in beauty pageants. Rangappa grew up in Hampton, Virginia, and graduated from

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. She graduated ''cum laude'' with an A.B. from th
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. Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studying constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia. She graduated from Yale Law School with a J.D. in 2000 and completed an internship with the US Attorneys office in Baltimore. and took a clerkship serving the Honorable

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on the

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in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2003 she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut.

Career

In 2001, Rangappa began her FBI training in

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. After graduation from Quantico Academy, she moved to New York City where she took a job as an

special agent, specializing in counterintelligence investigations, and became one of the first

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to hold the position. In 2005, Rangappa left the FBI to get married and have children. She returned to Yale to become an associate dean of its law school. Currently she serves as a director of admissions at Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She has taught at Yale University,

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, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses. She has published op-eds in ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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.'' She has appeared on

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