Biography|Bernadette Meehan — The Andrés Bello Compound Where She Presented Credentials to Chile

On 30 September 2022 Bernadette Meehan presented her credentials to President Gabriel Boric and began work as United States Ambassador to Chile. The embassy sits at Avenida Andrés Bello 2800, Las Condes, on the Costanera strip rather than in the old downtown ministries. OpenStreetMap and the Wikimedia Commons category place the compound near 33.4126 south, 70.6045 west. She held the post through the remainder of the Biden administration. The Foundation announcement that later named her Wikimedia chief executive listed the public results of those years: Senate ratification of a long-pending bilateral tax treaty, work toward Google's investment in the Humboldt subsea cable linking South America toward Asia, and advocacy around astronomy projects on Chilean ground, including ALMA and related observatories. Those are institutional claims, published by her later employer and by the Foundation press office, not private diary. She had first seen Chile as a teenager after the Argentine exchange year. Her Meta-Wiki staff page notes that she returned as ambassador to a country she had visited at seventeen. The tour ended in January 2025, when political appointees of the outgoing administration submitted resignations in the ordinary transfer of power. Sources disagree on whether the last day was 10 January or 20 January. The pin therefore uses the credential date, which is not in dispute. The compound is a working embassy. Visitors see a guarded perimeter, not a museum wing. The memory belongs to the public gate on Andrés Bello, not to any residence attached to the tour. Photo: Official White House portrait of Meehan as NSC spokesperson, 2015, public domain. Era-mismatched on purpose: no freely licensed still of the 30 September credential ceremony was confirmed on Commons at the time of writing.