Steve Irwin Quartermaster, 2011
Deborah Bassett was born and raised in Connecticut. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology & Anthropology from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. During her college years, she spent a year abroad studying Spanish and Latin American History and completed an internship in International Public Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico.
Fluent in French and Spanish, Deborah has since traveled the globe extensively documenting the efforts and raising awareness and funding for various environmental and social initiatives. She has volunteered in the field from tsunami relief in southern Thailand, to Habitat for Humanity in rural El Salvador, to jaguar conservation in the heart of Mexico's Selva Maya Rainforest. Through the years she has worked directly with such organizations as Amazon Watch, Global Green USA, Rainforest2Reef, Earth Island Institute, Orangutan Outreach, The Clinton Global Initiative, TEDx and The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
In her mid-twenties Deborah relocated to the North Shore of Oahu, where she learned to surf, discovered yoga and deepened her life long love and appreciation for the Ocean and marine life. In 2007 she joined the crew of pro
surfers and celebrity activists in a paddle out ceremony to help expose the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, as featured in the 2010 Academy Award winning film, The Cove. Her recent Sea Shepherd campaign to end the pilot whale slaughter in the Faroe Islands will be featured as a 5 part series on Discovery's Animal Planet in 2012.
Based in LA, Deborah continues to travel often as an independent journalist and consultant for various non profit organizations, specializing in public relations and special events planning. She is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, The Ecologist, Elephant Journal, Take Part and The Los Angeles Examiner. Various examples of her work and the projects to which she has contributed are showcased throughout this website.
Fluent in French and Spanish, Deborah has since traveled the globe extensively documenting the efforts and raising awareness and funding for various environmental and social initiatives. She has volunteered in the field from tsunami relief in southern Thailand, to Habitat for Humanity in rural El Salvador, to jaguar conservation in the heart of Mexico's Selva Maya Rainforest. Through the years she has worked directly with such organizations as Amazon Watch, Global Green USA, Rainforest2Reef, Earth Island Institute, Orangutan Outreach, The Clinton Global Initiative, TEDx and The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
In her mid-twenties Deborah relocated to the North Shore of Oahu, where she learned to surf, discovered yoga and deepened her life long love and appreciation for the Ocean and marine life. In 2007 she joined the crew of pro
surfers and celebrity activists in a paddle out ceremony to help expose the annual slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, as featured in the 2010 Academy Award winning film, The Cove. Her recent Sea Shepherd campaign to end the pilot whale slaughter in the Faroe Islands will be featured as a 5 part series on Discovery's Animal Planet in 2012.
Based in LA, Deborah continues to travel often as an independent journalist and consultant for various non profit organizations, specializing in public relations and special events planning. She is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post, The Ecologist, Elephant Journal, Take Part and The Los Angeles Examiner. Various examples of her work and the projects to which she has contributed are showcased throughout this website.
