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Senior U.S. Diplomat Will Lead Kamala Harris’s Running Mate’s Team

Elizabeth M. Allen, a veteran diplomat and political operative, is stepping down from her position as the U.S. under secretary of state for public diplomacy to take on a senior role in Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

On Saturday, Ms. Allen will become the chief of staff to Ms. Harris’s running mate, whose selection is expected to be announced in the coming days, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Ms. Allen, who has held other State Department posts, is a rare figure to transition between the worlds of diplomacy and national politics. During the 2020 campaign, she was the communications director for Ms. Harris’s vice-presidential operations. She also served as a deputy communications director in the Obama White House from 2015 to 2016, and before that she was a communications aide to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

A native of Buffalo, Ms. Allen joined the State Department as a college intern and has handled its public diplomacy duties since April 2022 — first in an acting role, and then after her confirmation in June 2023 — in a job whose mission is to promote America’s image worldwide. Colleagues said Ms. Allen played a larger, intangible role as a key member of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken’s core team.

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“U.S. credibility has never been more important,” Ms. Harris said in an interview. “The components of public diplomacy — and in particular, strategic narratives and countering disinformation — have never been more important.”

In a statement, Mr. Blinken said Ms. Allen had been “an indispensable adviser and sounding board to me and so many others across the department.” He cited her support for the State Department’s English-language programs in other countries and for independent news media and media literacy, which U.S. officials see as an important way to bolster democratic civil societies against the threat of authoritarianism.

A believer in creative forms of diplomacy, Ms. Allen encouraged Mr. Blinken’s public performances on electric guitar, including a blues jam at the State Department last fall that was intended to draw attention to the

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, which she oversaw.

When the Biden administration hosted the NATO summit in Washington last month, Ms. Allen sought to expand the event’s reach by inviting dozens of online influencers from eight countries who had large audiences on TikTok and

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. One, who promotes herself as a “Gen Z history teacher,”
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for her 156,000 followers explaining that NATO was “the largest military alliance, like, in the history of the world.”

Ms. Allen, who has visited 25 countries in her role, said she was especially proud of a four-nation tour through the Western Balkans, where she focused on media freedom and countering malign foreign influence.

When asked about her transition from the global stage to the national one, Ms. Allen, limited by a law prohibiting campaign advocacy by federal employees on the job, said there were “a lot of different ways to think about service.”

She added that she was a strong supporter of the current administration’s policies and that “I’m very happy to be working toward a future where we can advance those policy priorities.”




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