Asha Rangappa

Renuka Asha Rangappa (born November 15, 1974) is an American attorney, former FBI agent, Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, and has appeared as a commentator for multiple news networks. She was previously an associate dean at Yale Law School. Rangappa is also a member of the board of editors of Just Security.

Early life Rangappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to parents from Karnataka, 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 Hart-Celler Act. 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. In 2003, she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut. Currently she serves as Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer at Yale's Jackson School of Global Affairs. She has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses.

She has published op-eds in HuffPost, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic, She has appeared on MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and other networks as a commentator. She served as a legal and national security analyst for CNN.

Rangappa is a member of the board of directors for the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut, 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.