Wood is a Board Director at Heterodox Academy and a former Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal, and a class of 2018 graduate of Williams College, where he served as president of Uncomfortable Learning, a student group that sparked national controversy for inviting provocative speakers to campus. He writes on the importance of openness to unfamiliar perspectives, and how political polarization is affecting America. His recent work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Times Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed.