Gilchrist was the executive director of DeSmog environmental blog and the past president of Press Forward association of Canadian independent media outlets.
[1] She created a weekly column at the Calgary Herald called The Green Guide which won a Canadian Newspaper Association Great Ideas Award.
[1][4] Gilchrist was the executive director of DeSmog environmental blog[5] and was credited for providing content for Donald Gutstein's 2018 book The Big Stall.
[7][8] In 2018 she accepted four Canadian Online Publishing Awards on behalf of The Narwhal[9] and in 2021 was part of a team that won a 2021 Digital Publishing Award for Best Digital Editorial Package for their report Carbon Cache.
[10] Gilchrist is the past chair of Press Forward association of independent Canadian news organizations.