Alma is from High Point, North Carolina. She attended West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey. She has a bachelor’s degree in art education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She has a master’s degree in art education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She has a Doctor of Philosophy in art education and multicultural education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She lives with her two children in Charlotte.

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Alma is from High Point, North Carolina. She has a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree in art education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She also has a PhD in art education and multicultural education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She has two children.

Alma is a U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District. She works at the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has been since November 2014. She previously worked as a college professor and as an artist in Greensboro.

Alma previously worked as a college professor and as an artist in Greensboro.

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Alma currently serves as a U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District. She was first elected in 2014 and is serving her fifth term. She previously served 20 years as a state representative in North Carolina. She also served on her local school board and city council.

Supports increasing the minimum wage, combating child hunger, and financing new affordable housing construction.

Supports increasing the minimum wage and financing new affordable housing construction.

Supports legislation for paid family and medical leave benefits to help women return to work post-pandemic.

Supported legislation for paid family and medical leave benefits to help women return to work post-pandemic.

Believes in addressing financial challenges small, mid-sized, family farms, and ranchers face.

Supports providing land grants to new generations of black farmers.

Supports expanding access to apprenticeships, protecting worker safety, and defending their right to collective bargaining.

Prioritizes creating and retaining well-paying jobs to protect and strengthen the middle class.

- Supports increasing the minimum wage and financing new affordable housing construction.
- Supported legislation for paid family and medical leave benefits to help women return to work post-pandemic.
- Believes in addressing financial challenges small, mid-sized, family farms, and ranchers face.
- Supports providing land grants to new generations of black farmers.
- Supports expanding access to apprenticeships, protecting worker safety, and defending their right to collective bargaining.
- Prioritizes creating and retaining well-paying jobs to protect and strengthen the middle class.

Economy

Supports gun control and believes in banning certain high-powered assault weapons, closing "the gun show loophole," requiring background checks, and improving firearms tracking.

- Supports gun control and believes in banning certain high-powered assault weapons, closing "the gun show loophole," requiring background checks, and improving firearms tracking.

Public Safety

Supports efforts to combat high maternal mortality rates among Black women and advocates for the Momnibus, a package of bills aimed at improving maternal health outcomes and reducing health disparities.

Supports efforts to combat high maternal mortality rates among Black women.

Supports a single-payer healthcare system and has advocated for the expansion of Medicaid in North Carolina.

Supports a single-payer healthcare system and has advocated for the expansion of Medicaid.

Supported legislation that provides funding for comprehensive sex education to prevent STIs, unintended pregnancies, sexual abuse, and dating violence.

Opposes privatizing Social Security and defunding Medicare.

Supports women's reproductive rights, emphasizing that women should have control over their own bodies.

- Supports efforts to combat high maternal mortality rates among Black women.
- Supports a single-payer healthcare system and has advocated for the expansion of Medicaid.
- Wants to combat child hunger.
- Supported legislation that provides funding for comprehensive sex education to prevent STIs, unintended pregnancies, sexual abuse, and dating violence.
- Opposes privatizing Social Security and defunding Medicare.
- Supports women's reproductive rights, emphasizing that women should have control over their own bodies.

Healthcare

Supports permanent funding of $255 million annually for all Minority-Serving Institutions, including $85 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Supported permanent funding of $255 million annually for all minority-serving institutions, including $85 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Opposes school voucher programs that allow qualifying families to use public taxpayer dollars to fund private education.

- Supported permanent funding of $255 million annually for all minority-serving institutions, including $85 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
- Opposes school voucher programs that allow qualifying families to use public taxpayer dollars to fund private education.

Education

Supports investing in renewable energy sources and green technology.

- Supports investing in renewable energy sources and green technology.

Energy & the Environment

As of January 2, 2026, Alma Shealey Adams’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act, a federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting and previously required certain states and local governments to get federal approval before changing voting laws.

- Supports restoring and strengthening the Voting Rights Act, a federal law that prohibits racial discrimination in voting and previously required certain states and local governments to get federal approval before changing voting laws.

Voting & Elections

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Supports public schools, teachers, children, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Supports historic investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority-Serving Institutions, including necessary infrastructure improvements.

Alma is from High Point, North Carolina. She has a bachelor’s degree and master's degree in art education from North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She also has a PhD in art education and multicultural education from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She has two children.

Alma previously worked as a college professor and as an artist in Greensboro. She also worked in the General Assembly in the North Carolina House of Representatives. 

Alma currently serves a U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 12th Congressional District. She was first elected in 2014 and is serving her fifth term. She also served on her local School Board and City Council.

Supports increasing the minimum wage, expanding access to apprenticeships, protecting worker safety, and defending their right to collective bargaining.

Prioritizes creating and retaining well paying jobs to protect and strengthen the middle class.

- Supports increasing the minimum wage and financing new affordable housing construction.
- Supported legislation for paid family and medical leave benefits to help women return to work post-pandemic.
- Believes in addressing financial challenges small, mid-sized, family farms, and ranchers face.
- Supports providing land grants to new generations of black farmers.
- Supports increasing the minimum wage, expanding access to apprenticeships, protecting worker safety, and defending their right to collective bargaining.
- Prioritizes creating and retaining well paying jobs to protect and strengthen the middle class.

Supports gun control and believes in banning certain high-powered assault weapons, closing "the gun show loophole," requiring background checks, and improving firearms tracking .

- Supports gun control and believes in banning certain high-powered assault weapons, closing "the gun show loophole," requiring background checks, and improving firearms tracking .

- Supported permanent funding of $255 million annually for all minority-serving institutions, including $85 million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Supports restoring the Voting Rights Act.

- Supports restoring the Voting Rights Act.

- Your U.S. representative represents the interests of your district in the U.S. House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. North Carolina currently has 14 U.S. representatives.
- U.S. representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become federal law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain areas of policy, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the speaker of the house or majority/minority leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms and there are no term limits. U.S. representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.
-  Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he or she is elected. 