Career
After college,Bassett became a copy editor for Computer Business News in Boston.
It was her great-great-grandfather,Senator William J. Stone of Missouri,who inspired Bassett's interest in foreign service. He sat as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a hundred years before the committee recommended Senate approval of Bassett's nomination as ambassador to Paraguay in 2014. [4] When she first joined the Foreign Service,Bassett held several international assignments,including posts in Tel Aviv,Israel;San Salvador,El Salvador;Durban,South Africa and Managua,Nicaragua.
After returning to Washington,D.C.,she earned an M.A. in 1998 from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. in national security policy studies from the National War College in 1999. [5]
Other international assignments followed. Bassett was Counselor for Political-Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota,Colombia from 1999 to 2001 and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Gaborone,Botswana from 2001 to 2004.
Bassett served at the Embassy in Mexico from 2006 to 2009. [6]
When President Obama nominated her to become ambassador,she was serving as Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Seoul,South Korea. [7]
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