An evening with former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, who will discuss her new book The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government. Moderating the conversation will be Asha Rangappa, a former FBI agent and a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs.
In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power, using corruption, cruelty and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity, precision and moral force, she exposes the tactics of today’s far-right MAGA system: information warfare, aggressive retribution, conformism enforced by fear, and pervasive dismantling of legal checks and balances necessary to defend the public interest and uphold justice.
Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.
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Barbara McQuade is a professor from practice at the University of Michigan Law School, her alma mater, where she teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, national security and data privacy. She is also a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and co-host of the #SistersInLaw podcast.
From 2010 to 2017, McQuade served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She was appointed by President Barack Obama and was the first woman to serve in her position. Earlier in her career, she worked as a sportswriter and copy editor, a judicial law clerk, an associate in private practice, and an assistant U.S. attorney. McQuade, author of the national bestseller, Attack from Within, lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband. They have four children.
Asha Rangappa is a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former associate dean at Yale Law School. Prior to her current position, Rangappa served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Her work involved assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign agents and performing undercover work. While in the FBI, she gained experience in electronic surveillance, interview and interrogation techniques, firearms and the use of deadly force.