Wood worked as a community college curriculum specialist and a researcher for special needs-inclusive prekindergarten programs prior to writing her blog, Tales of an Educated Debutante.
[1][4] She studied Child Development at Meredith College and received a master's degree in Education and Early Intervention with a specialty in Inclusion from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[2] While an undergraduate student at Meredith College, Wood worked as a teaching assistant in various preschools in Raleigh, including a semester at the Waldorf Early School.
[2][7] On her blog she writes about education, public policy issues, life in North Carolina, motherhood, and raising a child with special needs.
[10] In 2017 Wood was a guest speaker at a fundraiser for Fans of Friendship House at Cape Fear Regional Theatre in Fayetteville.