[1] Theriot is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.

Before this, she served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Overseas Citizens Services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs.

Theriot also served as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, along with Principal Officer in Casablanca, Morocco as well as the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ Supervisory Regional Consular Officer in Frankfurt, Germany.

[1] On September 7, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Theriot to be the next ambassador to Guyana.

[1] A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Theriot speaks French and Urdu.