Adams Wood has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. In college, he was introduced to activism through work with Empty The Shelters and the Kensington Welfare Right Union. A founding member of Whispered Media, Adams co-produced two organizing videos, Road Use Restricted, about a 41-day road blockade in protest of logging on national forests, and Shut 'em Down. He was also lead editor on Whispered Media's contributions to Showdown in Seattle, a daily thirty minute production from the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. He has played a major role in the creation of three websites, videoactivism.org, whisperedmedia.org and boomthemovie.org. Adams also teaches documentary video to adults and youth. As of spring of 2002, Adams has left Whispered Media and relocated to Black Mountain, North Carolina, where his new media project is Mountain Eye Media.

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