The former US Ambassador to Liberia is now a volunteer member of the Joe Biden Agency Review Team working on transitioning the US Department of State.

She was appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2008 to be his Ambassador to Liberia  At a farewell ceremony in 2012, former president Sirleaf named her Liberia’s first postwar Honorary Citizen and conferred on her the distinction of Dame Great Band in the Humane Order of African Redemption.