During her career, she drew storyboards and production design drawings for dozens of films including Spaceballs, Flashdance, and Battlestar Galactica.
[4] For Career Opportunities Abbott also worked in the art department, but as a production illustrator for the film.
[6] Abbott was nominated for Best Costume Design by the NAACP for the play Shaking the Mess out of Misery.
[1] In the mid-1970s, Abbott, along with a small community of parents, founded the first multicultural school in Los Angeles.
She continued her work within the education system by heading various committees among four elementary schools, forming a multicultural calendar for them.