speaker at the Junior League of Raleigh's general membership meeting, where she spoke on mental health. In 2017 Wood was a guest speaker at a fundraiser for Fans of Friendship House at Cape Fear Regional Theatre in Fayetteville. Personal life Wood married Thomas Benbury Paxton Wood, an attorney from Raleigh, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Edenton, North Carolina on October 5, 2002. They have three sons and one daughter. One of her sons has special needs. Wood and her family live in the Edenton Historic District and are parishioners at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Their home, the Joseph Hewes House, was built in 1756 and the property was once owned by Joseph Hewes, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Wood converted to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism when she was forty-one. She serves as the Parent Teacher Association president at her children's public elementary school. In April 2020 Wood voiced support of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper for closing schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North Carolina. References Living people 20th-century American educators American debutantes American women bloggers American bloggers Academics from North Carolina Converts to Anglicanism from Presbyterianism Episcopalians from North Carolina Educators from North Carolina Meredith College alumni North Carolina State University alumni People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina Salem Academy alumni Special educators University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni 20th-century American women educators Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women