Ms. Bashen is the founder and President of Bashen Corporation and Bashen Enterprises ("Bashen"), a human resources consulting firm with a market niche in Equal Employment Opportunity compliance. In 1994, Ms. Bashen started her company from a home office with no money and one major client. Collectively, Ms. Bashen and her staff have investigated nearly 24,000 EEO claims for federal agencies, Fortune 500 companies, insurance carriers and numerous other entities.
In 2001, Ms. Bashen determined that an internet software application was required to add efficiencies to the antiquated paper process used by organizations at the time. The solution, LinkLine, a web-based EEO claims management and reporting system. Five years later in 2006, Ms. Bashen entered into an elite group of African American inventors when she was awarded a patent for LinkLine, U.S. Patent No. 6,985,922 B1. Ms. Bashen is an award-winning entrepreneur. Her awards include the Ebony 100, Inc. 500, Diversity Inc. Top 500 (six consecutive years), Black Inventors Hall of Fame, and Recipient of the Robert R. Taylor Network at MIT for LinkLine, (the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture in Dakar, Senegal). Ms. Bashen, a self-described “girl of the segregated south”, has dedicated much of her attention to our country’s struggle with racial and gender issues. Ms. Bashen’s next enterprise will be as a screenwriter of the racially provocative, “Embracing the Watermelon.”