As a graduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wood worked as an early intervention assistant in Wake County and as a student teacher at an inclusive Head Start program. As a doctoral student, she taught undergraduate teaching fellows at North Carolina State University, worked in the office of the Provost, and worked as an evaluator with the Wake County Grants Department. Upon completing her doctorate in education Wood worked with Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute in Chapel Hill as a research assistant and program evaluator, working on community college curriculum and gathering data for prekindergarten programs in New York and California.
