Wood held a gubernatorial appointment as Chair of the Virginia Council on Indians for four years,[REF] and served on the Advisory Council for the 'Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission' during the 2007 quadrennial celebration of Virginia [REF].
In 2008, she was named director of the Virginia Indian Heritage Program[REF] (later the Virginia Indian Programs) at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, a state humanities council in Charlottesville, Virginia.