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.
[2] She is serving as a senior lecturer at Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.
She told Elle that her parents "came under a provision where the government was specially looking for doctors," under the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.
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.
Rangappa was previously married to a fellow FBI agent, Andrew Dodd, in 2005; they later divorced in 2011.