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CEO Impact Award Breakfast Honorary Co-Chair
The Honorable DAlma S. Adams, Ph. D.
12th Congressional District of North Carolina
Dr. Alma S. Adams was elected to her fifth full term representing the 12th Congressional District of North Carolina on November 3, 2022. After winning a special election in November 2014, Congresswoman Adams was sworn in immediately as the 100th woman elected to the 113th Congress.
Representative Adams serves on the Committee on Education & the Workforce and the Committee on Agriculture. She holds committee leadership roles as Ranking Member of the Committee on Education
& the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Congresswoman Adams also serves on
the following subcommittees: Higher Education and Workforce Development (Committee on Education and Labor); Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture (Committee on Agriculture) and General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit (Committee on Agriculture). One of her outstanding legislative accomplishments is the enactment of H.R. 5363, the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act that permanently provides funding totaling $255 million a year for all Minority-Serving Institutions, including $85 million for HBCUs.
Representative Adams has previously served on the Joint Economic Committee and the Committee on Financial Services and in several leadership positions including Assistant Whip for the Democratic Caucus, Vice
Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, Vice Ranking Member of the Small Business Committee, and
ranking member of the Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight, and Regulation. The Congresswoman is a Co-Chair of the e-Learning Caucus, which examines best practices for online learning and help learners and institutions survive and thrive in the workforce. The Congresswoman is a founding member and co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus with Rep. Lauren Underwood of Illinois, as well as the founder and co-chair of the Congressional Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus.
The Black Maternal Health Caucus works to reduce the unacceptable rates of mortality and morbidity for Black parents, and has introduced the landmark Momnibus package in 2020 and 2021. The HBCU Caucus promotes bipartisan legislation that supports HBCUs and their graduates. Since its inception, the Caucus has:
• Coordinated the Diversity & Tech program, which fosters engagement, collaboration, and partnership between fortune 500 companies, government and industry leaders, and HBCUs.
• Fostered additions to the Farm Bill, which includes 40 million dollars to HBCUs for scholarships, funding for newly established centers of excellence in agriculture, and additional funding for agricultural research and cooperative extension for 1890 land grant universities.
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