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Throughout 2019 Abebe served on the National Institutes of Health Working Group on AI along AI experts including Kate Crawford, Dina Katabi, Daphne Koller, and Eric Lander. The working group was tasked with developing a comprehensive report and recommendations, which were unanimously approved by the Advisory Committee to the Director and NIH General Director Francis Collins.

Abebe was selected as a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows in 2019. She is the second Junior Fellow with a CS Ph.D. and first female computer scientist to be inducted into the Society.

In 2018, Abebe presented her talk Can Algorithms Reduce Inequality? at TEDxLosGatos.

Abebe co-founded the Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) initiative, a multi-disciplinary research collective that use algorithms and mechanism design to tackle inequality, with Kira Goldner, in 2016. Abebe has since been co-organizing the initiative with Irene Lo and Ana-Andreea Stoica. MD4SG hosts an annual workshop series highlighting work and connecting the community of researchers committed to using algorithms to improve societal welfare. Abebe was honored as a pioneer in the 2019 MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in part for her work co-founding MD4SG.

Abebe co-founded Black in AI, a network of 1,500 researchers working on AI, with Timnit Gebru, in 2016. The organization arranges annual workshops at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and offers networking and collaborative opportunities. Through Black in AI, Abebe has spearheaded programs such as a graduate application mentoring program for which she was honored in the 2019 Bloomberg 50 list as a one to watch.

In 2015, Abebe started her doctoral degree in computer science at Cornell University as a researcher in theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus their applications to equity and social good concerns. She was advised by Jon Kleinberg.

Abebe joined Harvard University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and later a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics. As an undergraduate, she co-authored research papers in mathematics, physics, and public health. She completed her master's degree from Harvard SEAS, conducting research with David C. Parkes. While at Harvard, Abebe contributed to The Harvard Crimson as a staff writer (2009-2011).