Ione Elveda Wood Gibbs (c. 1871 – June 1923) was an American educator, journalist, and clubwoman.

Her uncle William J. Simmons was the president of Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute, so she attended that school and trained as a teacher, earning her degree in 1888.

[2] Wood was an instructor at the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute while she was still a teenage student there.

[2] "Miss Ione E. Wood ranks today among the foremost of our women", commented one contemporary writer, "first, from the standpoint of acknowledged intellectual ability to write; second, as an earnest educator and race advocate".

[1][7][8] She wrote an essay, "Woman's Part in the Uplift of the Negro Race" (1907), which was published nationally, and is still occasionally reprinted.