She is a Senior Policy Advisor of the Archives of Ontario and teaches information science in American and Canadian universities.
Rebecka Sheffield is a previous director of the ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives and vice-president of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA).
[1][2][3] She has a bachelor's degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Saskatchewan, a Master's Degree in archival studies from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Mark S. Bonham Center for Sexual Diversity Studies.
[6] She has also worked as a public advocate about the preservation of queer cultural history in Toronto.
[7] Sheffield is the lead of an archival and artistic project The Bedside Table Archives, which documents objects found on the bedside tables of lesbian and queer women.