[1][2] Scholz received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Portland in 1989, with a double major in Philosophy and Theology and a minor in French.
[1] Scholz served as Editor of APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy from 2003 to 2008 and Co-editor for the Journal for Peace and Justice Studies from 2006 to 2011.
She has published four single-author books: On de Beauvoir (2000), On Rousseau (2001), Political Solidarity (2008) and Feminism: A Beginner's Guide (2010).
She co-edited Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future (2000) with Judith Presler and The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins (2005) with Shannon M. Mussett.
[4] Scholz notes that effective political solidarity can only occur through a "genuine mutually shared commitment to a cause.
[6] Scholz has suggested that a more fruitful approach is to think of the moral relations of social solidarity with non-human animals.