Melissa M. Castron holds a graduate degree in History (Archival Studies) from the University of Manitoba, and an undergraduate degrees in Art History and History from Concordia University. She was the 2021 recipient of the Archivaria Gordon Dodds Student Paper Prize and the Association for Manitoba Archives AMA Thesis of Distinction Award (Fall 2020–Winter 2021). She has worked as a research assistant on the Residential Schools Land Memory Mapping Project (RSLMMP) and as a researcher with the Multimedia Emergent Mapping for Education (MEME) Project.