She worked at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad from 2006 to 2007 as a Consular Officer, and for several months as Special Assistant to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.

Meehan left the NSC in 2015 to become an adjunct professor and State Department resident fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

According to The New York Times, her appointment to this position reflected the importance the President put on the trip and the complicated nature of planning the visit.

[9] In February 2017, Meehan departed the Foreign Service to serve as the Chief International Officer at the Obama Foundation.

Meehan served on the board of advisors for Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, within the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

[21] Richard Yoneoka, the Deputy Chief of Mission, will serve on an interim basis until a new ambassador to Chile is chosen.

She is married to Evan S. Medeiros, the Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.