Kristin Gilmore is a career Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State and serves as Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia. Her most recent assignment was Deputy Senior Director of the White House Situation Room, where she led a team of 80 civilian, military and contract staff providing round-the-clock support to the President and the National Security Council. Before that, she was Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat's Advance and Staffing Division, known as the Line.

Overseas, she has served as Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou and as Macroeconomic Unit Chief and Labor Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Earlier, she was a Senior Watch Officer in the State Department's 24-hour Operations Center and Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau. She has also served in Iraq, Colombia and Liberia, and won the State Department's 2021 Arnold L. Raphel Award for mentoring entry-level officers.

She holds a BA in English with an additional major in International Relations from Carnegie Mellon University, an MA in African Studies from Yale University, and an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College.