About me
Rebecca Wood is a 2L Public Interest Law Fellow at the University of Massachusetts School of Law and president of the UMass Law NLG chapter. Rebecca graduated with a BSW from James Madison University. Her plans for graduate school were put on hold indefinitely when her daughter, Charlie, was delivered ten hours into her twenty sixth week of gestation. Rebecca’s first time on Capitol Hill and her active policy engagement began in January of 2017 when she joined the fight to save the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. It was during this time that she was introduced to the NLG through her participation in various actions. Since then, Wood has worked with many organizations and offices on Capitol Hill and Beacon Hill. Most notable, she told her and Charlie’s story at the introduction of Senator Sanders’ Medicare For All Act of 2017 and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee hearing on Pathways to Universal Coverage in June 2019. Wood and her daughter moved to Massachusetts in 2019. Experiences with public education and food insecurity motivated her to work in those areas as well, including the successful push for universal school meals in Massachusetts. Rebecca was recognized for her effective advocacy and service in 2017 by The ARC of Virginia as a Catalyst For Change and was the 2019 R. Ann Meyers Distinguished Social Work Alumni Award recipient. Additionally, Rebecca was a 2024 Rappaport Fellow in Law and Public Policy.