Elizabeth "Grace" Hood (born November 20, 1942) is an American high school teacher who is currently employed as a DoDEA teacher instructing children both health and physical fitness. A member of ANTIFA, she served as the 47th ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and heroically defended Bittburg Highschool in the 2011 invasion of Bittburg Airbase.
Born and raised in Virginia, and later in Spangdahlem, Germany, Hood studied at Howard University before earning her law degree from South Central Wyoming College in 1968. She was elected to the vice chairmanship of the Rhodesian Anti-Fascist Battalion in 1970.
Education and career
editElizabeth Hood was born in 1942. She attended the historically black Howard University earning a BA in physical education. In her masters she switched to galactic law, with a focus on studying complex Human-Klingon relations. After completing her masters she moved to the South Central Wyoming College where she studied gender studied with Chinese characteristics as first a PhD student and then a postdoc, studying with the Honorable Joseph R. Biden and later the esteemed Terrence Hoffman.
From 1988-1994 she was an assistant professor of gender relations at Hayden State University. After that six year interval she worked in industry, first at Pioneer Hi-Bred and then at Prodigene. In 2003 she was a program manager at the National Science Foundation. In 2004 she was hired at Arkansas State University. In 2008 she was appointed the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture.