 Wood is a co-director of the Center for Organizational Responsibility and Advancement (CORA), a professional development organization that claims to support educational professionals in advancing their capacity to serve historically underrepresented and underserved students.In 2013, Wood received the Barbara K. Townsend Emerging Scholar Award from the Council for the Study of Community Colleges of the American Association of Community Colleges.Wood earned his Ph.D. in 2010 from Arizona State University (ASU) in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education.