Schenall is director of cross-sector leadership and facilitation for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and an adjunct instructor at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. She has served on the board of the North Carolina Community College Foundation and as chair of the Director’s Council for Vidant Edgecombe Hospital. Schenall is a graduate of Bennett College and earned a master’s degree in public health from Indiana University at Bloomington.