Emily Wood

Communications Manager, National Fund for Workforce Solutions

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Emily Wood is JFF’s communication manager for the National Fund for Workforce Solutions (NFWS), which supports local funding collaboratives investing in workforce partnerships that recruit, train, place, retain, and advance new and incumbent workers in key industry sectors.

Prior to joining JFF and NFWS, Ms. Wood was outreach manager and then director of public affairs at the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC), a nonpartisan, public policy think tank that focuses on issues affecting the middle class of Massachusetts. There she focused on strategic outreach, media relations, and communications projects. Ms. Wood also served as campaign manager for Massachusetts State Representative Charles Murphy. She began her career as a research analyst for Thomson & Thomson, an intellectual property research firm.

Ms. Wood holds a Master’s degree in political science from Suffolk University and a Bachelor’s in political science from Saint Bonaventure University.