Asha Rangappa is an Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer at the Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School.

Prior to her current position, Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. At Yale, she teaches courses on national security law, Russian information warfare, and leadership and ethics. She the author of The Freedom Academy, a bestselling online Substack publication about disinformation and its impact on democracy, and also co-hosts the legal podcast, It’s Complicated, with Renato Mariotti.

Asha graduated cum laude from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study constitutional reform and U.S. drug policy in Bogotá, Colombia. She received her law degree from Yale Law School where she was a Coker Fellow in constitutional law, and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Juan R. Torruella on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She is legal contributor for ABC News, an editor for Just Security, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.

Renato Mariotti is a former federal prosecutor, legal analyst, and partner at Paul Hastings LLP who litigates, tries cases, and defends individuals and companies who are under government investigation.

After graduating from the University of Chicago and Yale Law School, Renato clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals and worked as a litigation attorney before returning to Chicago where he spent over nine years as a federal prosecutor, investigating and prosecuting hundreds of cases in a wide variety of areas including child exploitation, human trafficking, cybercrime, gun trafficking, tax evasion, fraud, obstruction of justice, public corruption, narcotics trafficking, and more.

As a federal prosecutor, he was best known as the first person in the nation to prosecute a high-frequency trader under a special provision of the Dodd-Frank Act. It was a landmark case that signaled a sea change in the government’s ability to enforce securities regulations in the era of computer-aided trading.

Renato has been a CNN legal analyst and appears regularly on MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, ABC News, and PBS. He has been quoted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and The Washington Post. He was the Legal Affairs Columnist for POLITICO Magazine and has written for publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and Time Magazine.