Anna L. C. Wood is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University., who from 1996 to 2022 directed the Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive ((ACE). at Hunter College, New York. There she produced over 100 CDs and box sets published on Rounder Records, one of which was won Grammy’s in two categories, and a set of Haitian music with Harte Recordings, nominated for two Grammys, competing against the Beatles. She and her staff oversaw the digitization, restoration and organization of her father’s recordings, photos, videos, films, papers, and research collections before depositing them at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress. The programs she instituted at ACE include a Repatriation of Lomax’s field documentation to 60 local communities and regional libraries in the U.S. and abroad; an open access digital catalog of all of Lomax’s media, an open access digital library of the world’s music (a Global Jukebox) with a complete overhaul of its data and metadata; a YouTube channel with over 30 million views and 100k subscribers; an Endangered Cultures Initiative to support young culture members to document their expressive traditions; initiatives to make our primary cultural materials and resources useful to underserved communities and educators. In the U.S. and abroad, Wood researched and published on Greek, Italian, and Spanish music and poetry, social formations and disaster aid and recovery, and poor families’ mental services. She published articles in various academic journals, science journals and books, and has been translated into Chinese. Her recent book, Songs of Earth: Aesthetic and Social Codes in Music was published by the University Press of Mississippi). For her work on Italian folk traditions, Anna was made a Knight of the Italian Republic in 1978.