October 9 - 12, 2026
Westin Crown Center, Kansas City
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
sponsored by
Asha Rangappa
Senior Lecturer, Yale University Jackson School of Global Affairs
Our keynote speaker, Asha Rangappa, is a course instructor at Yale University on national security law, Russian information warfare, and leadership and ethics.
Prior to her current position, Asha served as Associate Dean at the Yale Law School.
Formerly she was a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations 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.
Asha is the author of The Freedom Academy, a bestselling online Substack publication about disinformation and its impact on democracy, and she also co-hosts the legal podcast, It's Complicated, with Renato Mariotti. She is a former legal and national security analyst for CNN and ABC News, and she has also appeared frequently on MSNBC and BBC. She is also an editor for Just Security, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
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.
Formerly she was a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations 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.
Asha is the author of The Freedom Academy, a bestselling online Substack publication about disinformation and its impact on democracy, and she also co-hosts the legal podcast, It's Complicated, with Renato Mariotti. She is a former legal and national security analyst for CNN and ABC News, and she has also appeared frequently on MSNBC and BBC. She is also an editor for Just Security, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and a Security Fellow with the Truman National Security Project.
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.
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