Eliza Schmidkunz

Eliza Schmidkunz is a partner in Gibbons Media and Research LLC, publishers of Inside GNSS, and the author of "GNSS Hotspots", a regular column.

From 2001 to 2007, she was responsible for internal and external communications for the University of Oregon School of Law. While there, she received a gold award for copywriting and a silver award for the law school catalog from CASE, the association for university advancement professionals.

Before that, she worked in a number of creative and marketing management positions in medicine and the natural sciences. These included the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History and its archaelogical research arm, a large west coast hospital consortium and its women’s health education center, a museum exhibit and retail design firm, and a health maintenance organization.

Eliza attended the University of California at Santa Cruz and Riverside. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, where she specialized in advertising. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, USA.