Asha Rangappa is a legal scholar, national security expert, and former FBI Special Agent whose work sits at the intersection of law, institutional accountability, and the psychology of complicity. She is the author of Uncompromised: Activating Your Moral Compass in an Age of Complicity (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), which develops a framework for understanding how ordinary people become complicit in institutional wrongdoing — and what conditions produce moral courage instead.
Asha is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs, where she teaches courses on Russian intelligence and information warfare and national security law. Her scholarly interests include the limits of First Amendment marketplace of ideas doctrine in the digital attention economy, the tobacco litigation model as a framework for social media platform accountability, and the professional responsibility dimensions of institutional complicity.
Prior to joining Yale, Asha served as a Special Agent in the FBI's New York Division, specializing in counterintelligence investigations, and as Associate Dean of Admissions at Yale Law School. Asha graduated cum laude from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study constitutional reform in Bogotá, Colombia. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and clerked for the Hon. Juan Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Asha has been a legal and national security analyst for CNN and ABC News and has published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Just Security, among others. She is a member of the state bars of New York and Connecticut, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Senior Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.