Karenne Wood is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation and serves on the Monacan Tribal Council.  She is Director of the Virginia Indian heritage Program at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Virginia, working to reclaim indigenous languages and revitalize cultural practices.  She recently edited  The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail, led the “Beyond Jamestown” Teachers’ Institute, and curated the “Beyond Jamestown: Virginia Indians Past and Present” exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
   
She was previously the Repatriation Director for the Association on American Indian Affairs, coordinating the return of sacred objects to Native communities.  She has also worked at the National Museum of the American Indian as a researcher, and she directed a tribal history project with the Monacan Nation for six years.  Wood held a gubernatorial appointment as Chair of the Virginia Council on Indians for four years, and she has served on the National Congress of American Indians’ Repatriation Commission.