Abigail Bassett

My story for Elle Magazine on women in motorsports and the issues they face.

I hosted a number of panels at the 2022 Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York. This is just one of them.

The consumer technology industry has been slower than other sectors to get greener products in the hands of customers. The reasons behind this slow progression are numerous, layered, and complicated, but the business case for green technology is finally improving.

“If you look to other industries, you actually see more sustainable behavior, and a bit more transparency,” says Eva Gouwens, CEO of Amsterdam-based Fairphone, a small sustainable-smartphone manufacturer. “The electronics industry h...

Liliana Palma Santos offers experiences that you won't find anywhere else.
Liliana Palma Santos greets me over video conference with a wide smile. "I've been so busy," she proclaims as she settles in for our interview. She's seated on a patio in her hometown of Tlacolula de Matamoros in Oaxaca. Santos, known as Lily the Zapotec Traveler on Instagram, offers guests and travelers access to unique, intimate, off-the-beaten-path experiences featuring Indigenous Zapotec craftspeople, chefs, and to...

Makeup can be amazing, or it can bring you to tears. But, as someone who had to teach herself how to do camera-ready makeup at age 42, I’m here to tell you that it's not nearly as scary or difficult as you think. There are very specific things I learned about doing my makeup in my 40s after having to figure it out for a television show I was hosting. Between lots of practice, and tons of play, I’ve boiled down the lessons I’ve learned to these four pieces of advice.
Oh, and for those of you w...

Three days after Justin Hardin started his job at Slack, the country went into lockdown. Soon, his hometown was facing another crisis as wildfires raged nearby.

“I taught myself to code to change the world,” said Hardin, who is now a cofounder and the chief technology officer of the climate job board Climatebase. “Then boom, the skies in San Francisco turned orange, and I was like, what in the world is happening?”

When Hardin started his tech career, he had hoped to use his software engineeri...

Here’s the thing. Crop tops are fundamentally flattering for all body types–especially when you use them to balance proportions out or highlight your favorite body parts. I know that sounds a bit daunting, and if you survived the 90s by only showing the tiniest glimpse of belly just above your low-waisted bootcut jeans, you might feel a bit reluctant to return to those days in the current era. I’m here to tell you as a first-time crop top wearer in her forties, there ain’t nothing to be afrai...

Hosted and interviewed top leaders at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Analog Devices about their unique partnership working to fight climate change.

On June 24, the Supreme Court handed down one of the biggest reversals in its history when they overturned federal abortion rights and upended the 50-year precedent set by the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade.

While the nation knew this decision was coming and unlikely to change after a leaked version of the majority opinion written by conservative Justice Samuel Alito hit the front pages in May, it has deeply rocked the population and further divided an already deeply fragmented country.

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Every company’s success is tied to its talent - recruiting and retaining the employees needed to deliver high-level customer experiences that support the bottom line. Yet rapid transformation has disrupted many things that organizations used to do to maintain great company cultures. So how can business leaders reimagine their employee experiences to meet the needs of their workforces? Find out on this podcast from Fast Company, Hosted by Abigail Bassett

Drive through canyons, otherworldly craters, and ghost towns in an SUV.
When someone talks about off-roading, one of two things happens: Listeners' eyes glaze over and they absentmindedly scroll their phone, or they get really excited to share every detail about their latest rig and the gnarliest trails they've traversed. Venturing into the off-roading world can feel at once intimidating, frightening, exciting, and adventurous. Accessing some of the most remote, wild, and beautiful parts of t...

A series of reviews of EVs that I've done for The Verge.

Slogans and sayings inundate us in everyday life. They become part of our national language and part of the fabric that makes up how we see, describe, and construct our nation, our laws, and our world. In this historic moment, language is at the heart of a movement, sparking a groundswell change and opening new lines of communication about what it means to be Black in America.
Black Lives Matter
The phrase began as a hashtag on social media platforms in 2013 when thousands of activists took t...

Warm water, essential oils, candles, and a relaxing soundtrack make the perfect recipe for the modern-day bath, which provides the ultimate stress relief for many people. But bathing wasn't always a thing. Nor was it always done in private. In fact, up until the mid 19th century, most bathing was public, reserved for religious leaders, political leaders, or the very rich. Eventually bathing evolved into a private, personal ritual that can have a wide variety of psychological and physical bene...

Thinking about the financial benefits of leasing versus buying a car can feel like an overwhelming decision. Buying might mean plunking down a large amount of cash all at once, but you wind up with a car owned outright in the end. Leasing usually means smaller payments, but you’re stuck in a loop of always paying for a vehicle.
The good news is that there are a few car-buying basics that you can use to help guide your decision. As New York-based Certified Financial Planner Doug Flynn tells hi...