Easter Z. Wood, a Harlem native, received her bachelor’s degree from CCNY in Spring 2008. She began pursuing her master's degree in history in Fall 2008, with a focus on the African diaspora in the Americas. Previously, in 2006, Easter earned an associate’s degree in psychology from Bronx Community College, where she was a class valedictorian. Easter is greatly concerned with social justice and progress in the United States and around the world; she has studied abroad at the University of Legon in Accra, Ghana, interned at the Salzburg Global Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, and during the summer of 2008, studied in both Nigeria and Egypt. Easter is managing editor of The Paper at City College and a founding member of the Gulf Coast Relief Society, through which she has traveled to help rebuild the city of New Orleans. Her concerns include education and environmental policy. She has worked as a student representative with Campus Progress, a national organization, to encourage students to advocate for improved education policies. Easter also hopes someday to better inform communities of color of how “green living” can improve their lives and health.