A recipient of the Horbosotel Award for Teaching Excellence in the College of Fine Arts, she is also Director and Founder of Growing Theater Outreach, and serves on the advisory boards of several arts outreach programmes. Mundell is one of the founders of the internationally recognised Roboceptionist Project, a social robotics collaboration between the CMU Robotics Institute and the School of Drama. Her design work includes major projects for theatre, museum exhibitions, opera, symphony, dance and industrial design. She is currently working on a book about growing instincts and transcending creative obstacles during the making of theatre.