Sharon Odell has a twenty-five-year career in museology at municipal, provincial, and national level museums; as a mentor she presently sits on an Algonquin College advisory committee for Applied Museum Studies. She holds an M.A. in Art History from Carleton University, and specializes in research on art, architecture, and the history of women in science; with presentations to Canadian wide audiences, as a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.