Schmidgal is interested in big think, or how to draw ideas from fields outside your own that may be applied toward larger questions and challenges.
She was recently Director of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. Her duties there include planning, developing, and implementation of marketing, advertising, and communication strategies. She also coordinated the School's lecture series, which featured a range of award-winning architects, urban planners, theorists, designers and artists.
Schmidgal has overseen Communications and served as board liason at Slought since 2010. Prior to that she was a Curatorial and Research Fellow from 2008-2010.
She completed a Master of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Organizational Dynamics. She currently lives in the Canary Islands.