Tragic Loss! Peggy Moore and Hope Wood, Pioneers in Political Organizing, Killed in Car Accident

Peggy Moore and Hope Wood, a well-known political activist couple from Northern California, were killed in a car crash on May 10. They were passengers in a Jeep Gladiator when it collided with a Chrysler car on California Highway 76 in unincorporated San Diego County, according to The Bay Area Reporter. Their car was heading west, when the Chrysler swerved out of the eastbound lane for unclear reasons, resulting in the crash. Moore was sixty, and Wood was forty-eight.

The drivers of the Jeep and Chrysler were also murdered. Wood’s aunt, who was also a passenger in the Jeep, was the only survivor but suffered critical injuries, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the couple’s burial expenses. Moore and Wood first met and fell in love while campaigning for Barack Obama in 2008. They married on July 29, 2013, at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, one month after Proposition 8, which had prevented marriage equality in California, was repealed.

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Moore oversaw Libby Schaaf’s successful 2014 campaign for mayor of Oakland and later served as Schaaf’s senior adviser. Moore campaigned for the Oakland City Council in 2016, but lost to incumbent Rebecca Kaplan. She also served as general consultant for Diana Betcon’s successful district attorney race in Contra Costa County, Northern California.

Moore also cofounded Sistahs Steppin’ in Pride, a lesbian women’s event that ran in the east San Francisco Bay Area for several years in the early 2000s. Wood was a former teaching fellow for the Harvard Kennedy School’s Leadership Organizing, Action: Leading Change course and had worked as a political organizer in California and around the country for the previous 20 years.

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In 2019, the couple established Hope Action Change, a consulting firm that focuses on organizational development and developing diverse leadership in businesses. “As women of color, we are experts at the dance of values in the workplace,” they stated on the company’s website. ”

We have lived outside society’s main streets, at the intersections of our gender and race, and we have learned to navigate a path through many places where we have not been welcomed. Despite the obstacles of this journey, we are optimistic about where our road will lead. We formed HAC to assist other change leaders in developing and maintaining the wisdom and strength necessary to realize their future optimism.

Moore and Wood recently spent most of their time in Orange County, California, to be closer to Wood’s family, while maintaining an apartment in Oakland, according to Schaaf. Moore had also been visiting Oklahoma frequently to see her folks.