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Asha grew up in Hampton, Virginia[3] and graduated from Kecoughtan High School. She graduated cum laude with a A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University 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.[4][5] Following graduation, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, studying constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia.[3] She attended Yale Law School and did an internship with the US Attorneys office in Baltimore.[3] She graduated in 2000[2] 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.[6] In 2003 she was admitted to the state bars of New York and Connecticut.[7]
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,[6] and became one of the first Indian Americans to hold the position.[8][2]
In 2005, Rangappa left the FBI to get married and have children.[2] She returned to Yale to become an associate dean of its law school.[9] Currently she serves as a director of admissions at Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.[10] She has taught at Yale University,[11] Wesleyan University, and University of New Haven, teaching National Security Law and related courses.[7]
She has published op-eds in HuffPost,[12] The Washington Post,[13] The New York Times, Time,[14] The Atlantic,[7] and The Wall Street Journal.[15] She has appeared on BBC, NPR,[16] and other networks as a commentator. She serves as a legal and national security analyst for CNN.[17][18]
Rangappa is a member of the board of directors for the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut,[19] the Connecticut Society of Former FBI Agents,[19] and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
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