Alice Wood

Board Member, Dayton Tenant Union

Alice Wood, a Kettering Foundation 2026 Dayton Democracy Fellow, is a Bronx, New York, native and Dayton resident of four years. She is a community organizer and board member of the Dayton Tenant Union. In 2023, Wood and the Dayton Tenant Union were responsible for the city commission adding housing to a tax levy that would fund affordable housing efforts in the city of Dayton for eight years. Through lived experience, Wood has overcome many challenges related to affordable housing and homelessness. She shares her experiences with poor housing and slumlords to change the narrative and bring awareness to the state of low-income housing and the lack of tenant protections. By educating tenants on their rights and responsibilities, she hopes the knowledge will influence more people to feel confident in advocating for themselves, their family, and neighbors. Through her political and civic engagement, Wood hopes to both reshape policies and create new ones so that they will be fair for all. She believes all humans should have access to the basic necessities of life with dignity. Her work is informed by the idea that we should treat others the way you want to be treated, and she works to bring about programs and policies that reflect this simple but powerful wisdom. Wood is a graduate of Loch Raven High School in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Clark Atlanta University as a premed major. Her motivation is her children: Enzo, Jade, Elias, and Luna. Wood credits her late grandmother, Alice Clark, her late mother, Roslyn Clark-Farley, who transitioned in 2021, and her aunt, Theresa Clark, for being remarkable women who taught her through actions, love, and words how to be a woman of strength for herself, her family, and her community.