Dr. Woods supports groups, organizations, and community leaders as an educator, researcher, and organizer, all of which combine to form her integrative movement building approach rooted in Black feminism. She simultaneously started her PhD program, joined a local economic justice organization, and began working with a range of campus leaders to increase student participation in campus decision-making processes. While studying and teaching about social inequalities and movements, she worked on community-driven issue and legislative campaigns like those to protect and expand social security and Medicaid, raise the minimum wage, address student loan debt, and gain environmental protections. She also cofounded and served as a leader in several campus groups and organizations, one of which included laying the groundwork for and launching what would become the graduate employee union.

She went on to work was as an organizer and opposition researcher for a national startup that initially focused on reproductive access and freedom issue campaigns. Her work currently emphasizes how addressing racial health disparities requires protecting and expanding our democracy.

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