[4] She did an internship at the United Nations in Washington, D.C. in 2005 and spent a year in Concord, New Hampshire as an au pair.

[5] In 2007, she did an internship at the African Development Bank in Tunisia,[5] before obtaining a Green card and moving to the United States, living there for eight years.

[4] In 2017, she wrote a letter to Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, asking him to withdraw his plans to change the constitution.

[4][6] She was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs by Keita on 9 September 2018, the first woman and youngest person to hold the post,[4] and one of eleven women in the thirty-two member cabinet.

[11] As of December 2018, when she gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in Marrakech deploring the withdrawal of some countries from the Global Compact for Migration, she was the world's youngest Foreign minister.