Vita

Sharon Burton helps people and organizations make sense of complex stuff through smart content strategy. By day, she works as a content strategist, helping businesses design content that actually works—for the company and for the humans using it. By night, she teaches “baby engineers” at the University of California, Riverside, showing them how to communicate like pros.

Armed with a graduate degree in cultural anthropology, Sharon has spent her career exploring how people find, use, and trust information—and how better content design can transform the user experience and the business bottom line. She’s taught more than 8,000 people in corporate and university settings, proving that good communication is as much a system as it is a science.

She’s the co-author of Engineering Words (XML Press, 2025) and the editor of Women in Technical Communication: From Typewriters to Touchscreens (XML Press, 2026), a living history of women shaping technology through words.

When she’s not untangling messy content ecosystems, Sharon can be found sewing, knitting, cooking, baking bread, growing things, riding her bike (or a motorcycle), and occasionally trying to lift something heavy at the gym.

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