In the eighties, Schultz was hired by the United Nations as a film director. Her role was to cover trouble spots around the world and the UN missions. There, she specialized in disarmament issues and was sent to Iraq to search for weapons of mass destruction. Her documentaries on these issues were shown worldwide. She was also a reporter for CNN on post war Kosovo and a senior TV-producer with the UN mission. It was not until the 2000s that she started her career in still photography full-time. Her studio is located in New York's West Village, where she spends half of her time and the other half in Paris.