She has been in North Carolina since 2005 when she came to study Dance Education and Communication Studies at UNCG.

About Amanda Cook

In 2020, Amanda went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in Teacher Leadership. Curriculum, and Instruction with an additional certificate for Gifted Education. She graduated from Gardner Webb University in July of 2021.

While serving the City of High Point as an At-Large Councilmember, Amanda served on the Community Development and Transparency, Engagement, and Communication (TEC) committees. She also served as the liaison to the Library and Museum Advisory Board, Theatre Advisory Board, Elevate Young Professionals Board, and the Guilford County Continuum of Care Board. She also serves on the Guilford County Partnership for Children Board as well as the Every Baby Guilford Steering Committee.

Amanda Cook has been in North Carolina since 2005, when she came to study dance education and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned a master's degree in teacher leadership, curriculum, and instruction from Gardner Webb University in 2021, with an additional certificate in gifted education. She serves on the Guilford County Partnership for Children Board and the Every Baby Guilford Steering Committee.

Amanda Cook has been in North Carolina since 2005, when she came to study dance education and communication studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She earned a master's degree in teacher leadership, curriculum, and instruction from Gardner Webb University in 2021, with an additional certificate in gifted education. 

2026 North Carolina General Election

Before the vote on Saturday, she told local party leaders she'll focus on reducing poverty in the district.

“We have to strengthen year-round economic development here in High Point in order to build the infrastructure for our families," she said. "So my first priority is to make sure that we don't have a city full of Title One schools.”

Cook won 55% of the vote, besting competitors Joseph Alston, Bruce Davis, and Angie Williams-McMichael.

High Point council member Amanda Cook to replace Brockman in NC House

Support Reproductive Freedom: Defend a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, including access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.
Promote Equal Pay: Push for stringent enforcement of equal pay laws and support new legislation that addresses wage disparities between men and women.
Anti-Discrimination Laws: Sponsor and support legislation that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Issues | Amanda Cook for North Carolina House District 60

Promote Equal Pay: Push for stringent enforcement of equal pay laws and support new legislation that addresses wage disparities between men and women.
Anti-Discrimination Laws: Sponsor and support legislation that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
Support for Transgender Rights: Advocate for policies that protect and affirm the rights of transgender individuals, including healthcare rights and safe access to public spaces.

Said High Point needs year-round economic development to build infrastructure for families.

Advocates for enforcement of equal-pay laws and new legislation addressing wage disparities between men and women.

Plans to sponsor and support legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

- Said High Point needs year-round economic development to build infrastructure for families.
- Advocates for enforcement of equal-pay laws and new legislation addressing wage disparities between men and women.
- Plans to sponsor and support legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Economy

As of September 21, 2026, Amanda Cook’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Healthcare for All

Establish State-Funded Subsidies: Create state subsidies to maintain affordable insurance premiums when federal ACA subsidies are reduced, ensuring all North Carolinians can afford health insurance.  
Focus on Preventive Care: Invest in preventive care programs to reduce long-term health costs and improve overall health outcomes.  
Enhance Mental Health Services: Expand mental health and substance abuse programs to provide comprehensive behavioral health support.  
Improve Rural Healthcare Access: Increase investments in telehealth services and mobile health clinics, ensuring residents in remote areas have reliable access to healthcare.

Healthcare for All

Establish State-Funded Subsidies: Create state subsidies to maintain affordable insurance premiums when federal ACA subsidies are reduced, ensuring all North Carolinians can afford health insurance.  
Focus on Preventive Care: Invest in preventive care programs to reduce long-term health costs and improve overall health outcomes.  
Enhance Mental Health Services: Expand mental health and substance abuse programs to provide comprehensive behavioral health support.

Healthcare for All

Focus on Preventive Care: Invest in preventive care programs to reduce long-term health costs and improve overall health outcomes.  
Enhance Mental Health Services: Expand mental health and substance abuse programs to provide comprehensive behavioral health support.  
Improve Rural Healthcare Access: Increase investments in telehealth services and mobile health clinics, ensuring residents in remote areas have reliable access to healthcare.

Healthcare for All

Enhance Mental Health Services: Expand mental health and substance abuse programs to provide comprehensive behavioral health support.  
Improve Rural Healthcare Access: Increase investments in telehealth services and mobile health clinics, ensuring residents in remote areas have reliable access to healthcare.  





Advocate for Affordable Medications: Push for policies that reduce prescription drug prices, making essential medications more accessible and affordable for all North Carolinians.

Healthcare for All

Improve Rural Healthcare Access: Increase investments in telehealth services and mobile health clinics, ensuring residents in remote areas have reliable access to healthcare.  





Advocate for Affordable Medications: Push for policies that reduce prescription drug prices, making essential medications more accessible and affordable for all North Carolinians.
Addressing the Current Crisis: Recognize that the pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges within healthcare.

Protect and Expand Voter Access: Advocate for laws that protect the right to vote and make voting more accessible to everyone through automatic voter registration, extended early voting periods, and no-excuse absentee voting.
Combat Voter Suppression: Actively work against any legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise any group of voters, ensuring that all citizens have a fair and equal opportunity to participate in our democracy.
Support Reproductive Freedom: Defend a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, including access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.
Promote Equal Pay: Push for stringent enforcement of equal pay laws and support new legislation that addresses wage disparities between men and women.

Anti-Discrimination Laws: Sponsor and support legislation that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.
Support for Transgender Rights: Advocate for policies that protect and affirm the rights of transgender individuals, including healthcare rights and safe access to public spaces.
Police Reform: Support comprehensive police reform measures that include better training, accountability, and community oversight to build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Accessibility and Inclusion: Promote legislation that enhances accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities in all aspects of public life, including updates to ADA compliance and increased support for assistive technologies.
Protecting Seniors: Advocate for policies that protect seniors from abuse and exploitation, and support initiatives that provide better healthcare and living conditions for our aging population.

Paid for by Elect Amanda Cook

Proposes state-funded subsidies to maintain affordable health insurance premiums if federal Affordable Care Act subsidies are reduced.

Supports investment in preventive-care programs to reduce long-term health costs and improve health outcomes.

Supports expanding mental-health and substance-abuse programs.

Supports increased investment in telehealth services and mobile health clinics for rural residents.

Advocates for policies to reduce prescription-drug prices.

Supports access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.

Advocates for policies protecting transgender individuals' healthcare rights and safe access to public spaces.

Advocates for policies to protect seniors from abuse and exploitation and improve their healthcare and living conditions.

- Proposes state-funded subsidies to maintain affordable health insurance premiums if federal Affordable Care Act subsidies are reduced.
- Supports investment in preventive-care programs to reduce long-term health costs and improve health outcomes.
- Supports expanding mental-health and substance-abuse programs.
- Supports increased investment in telehealth services and mobile health clinics for rural residents.
- Advocates for policies to reduce prescription-drug prices.
- Supports access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.
- Advocates for policies protecting transgender individuals' healthcare rights and safe access to public spaces.
- Advocates for policies to protect seniors from abuse and exploitation and improve their healthcare and living conditions.

Healthcare

Equal Rights for All

Protect and Expand Voter Access: Advocate for laws that protect the right to vote and make voting more accessible to everyone through automatic voter registration, extended early voting periods, and no-excuse absentee voting.
Combat Voter Suppression: Actively work against any legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise any group of voters, ensuring that all citizens have a fair and equal opportunity to participate in our democracy.
Support Reproductive Freedom: Defend a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, including access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.

Protect and Expand Voter Access: Advocate for laws that protect the right to vote and make voting more accessible to everyone through automatic voter registration, extended early voting periods, and no-excuse absentee voting.
Combat Voter Suppression: Actively work against any legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise any group of voters, ensuring that all citizens have a fair and equal opportunity to participate in our democracy.
Support Reproductive Freedom: Defend a woman's right to make decisions about her own body, including access to contraception and safe, legal abortion.

Advocates for automatic voter registration, extended early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting.

Opposes legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise groups of voters.

- Advocates for automatic voter registration, extended early voting, and no-excuse absentee voting.
- Opposes legislation that would disproportionately disenfranchise groups of voters.

Voting & Elections

Support for Transgender Rights: Advocate for policies that protect and affirm the rights of transgender individuals, including healthcare rights and safe access to public spaces.
Police Reform: Support comprehensive police reform measures that include better training, accountability, and community oversight to build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Address Systemic Inequality: Implement policies aimed at eliminating systemic barriers in education, healthcare, and employment that disproportionately affect communities of color.

Supports police reforms including better training, accountability, and community oversight.

- Supports police reforms including better training, accountability, and community oversight.

Public Safety

Support for Educators: Tackle the de-professionalization of teachers and the overwhelming workload on classified employees, and resist the encroachment of private industries on education funding. Although the Guilford County School Board has limited power, it must utilize its authority to galvanize and unify the community for the greater good.

Education for All

Quality Childcare Funding: Provide funding to ensure families can afford quality childcare, helping parents work or pursue education while knowing their children are in safe, nurturing environments.

Nutrition Access in Schools: Guarantee that all public school students have access to a free, healthy breakfast and lunch, reducing hunger in schools and improving student concentration, participation, and overall well-being.

Education for All

Quality Childcare Funding: Provide funding to ensure families can afford quality childcare, helping parents work or pursue education while knowing their children are in safe, nurturing environments.

Nutrition Access in Schools: Guarantee that all public school students have access to a free, healthy breakfast and lunch, reducing hunger in schools and improving student concentration, participation, and overall well-being.

Enhance Public School Programs: Prioritize funding to proven programs within the North Carolina public schools that enhance educational outcomes and provide equitable opportunities for all students.

Education for All

Nutrition Access in Schools: Guarantee that all public school students have access to a free, healthy breakfast and lunch, reducing hunger in schools and improving student concentration, participation, and overall well-being.

Enhance Public School Programs: Prioritize funding to proven programs within the North Carolina public schools that enhance educational outcomes and provide equitable opportunities for all students.

Increase Teacher Salaries: Raise public school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professionals to acknowledge their vital role and to attract and retain the best educators.

Education for All

Enhance Public School Programs: Prioritize funding to proven programs within the North Carolina public schools that enhance educational outcomes and provide equitable opportunities for all students.

Increase Teacher Salaries: Raise public school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professionals to acknowledge their vital role and to attract and retain the best educators.
End Subsidies for Private Schooling: Cease subsidies to families who choose private schooling for their children, redirecting those funds to public schools to improve education for all students across the state.

Increase Teacher Salaries: Raise public school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professionals to acknowledge their vital role and to attract and retain the best educators.
End Subsidies for Private Schooling: Cease subsidies to families who choose private schooling for their children, redirecting those funds to public schools to improve education for all students across the state.


Support for Special Education: Expand resources and funding for special education programs to ensure that students with disabilities receive tailored support and high-quality education tailored to their needs.

Support for Special Education: Expand resources and funding for special education programs to ensure that students with disabilities receive tailored support and high-quality education tailored to their needs.  
Career and Technical Education Expansion: Increase investment in career and technical education programs to provide students with practical skills and pathways to high-demand jobs, enhancing their employment prospects post-graduation.  
Mental Health Resources in Schools: Implement comprehensive mental health programs in schools, providing students with access to counselors and mental health professionals to support their emotional and psychological well-being.

Career and Technical Education Expansion: Increase investment in career and technical education programs to provide students with practical skills and pathways to high-demand jobs, enhancing their employment prospects post-graduation.  
Mental Health Resources in Schools: Implement comprehensive mental health programs in schools, providing students with access to counselors and mental health professionals to support their emotional and psychological well-being.

Equal Rights for All

Calls for addressing teacher de-professionalization and classified employees' workloads while resisting private-industry encroachment on education funding.

Supports funding to help families afford quality childcare.

Supports free, healthy breakfast and lunch for all public-school students.

Prioritizes funding for proven North Carolina public-school programs that improve educational outcomes and equitable opportunities.

Supports raising public-school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professions.

Opposes subsidies for families choosing private schools and supports redirecting those funds to public schools.

Supports expanded resources and funding for special-education programs.

Supports increased investment in career and technical education programs.

Supports comprehensive school mental-health programs that provide students with access to counselors and mental-health professionals.

- Calls for addressing teacher de-professionalization and classified employees' workloads while resisting private-industry encroachment on education funding.
- Supports funding to help families afford quality childcare.
- Supports free, healthy breakfast and lunch for all public-school students.
- Prioritizes funding for proven North Carolina public-school programs that improve educational outcomes and equitable opportunities.
- Supports raising public-school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professions.
- Opposes subsidies for families choosing private schools and supports redirecting those funds to public schools.
- Supports expanded resources and funding for special-education programs.
- Supports increased investment in career and technical education programs.
- Supports comprehensive school mental-health programs that provide students with access to counselors and mental-health professionals.

Education

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Amanda Cook

- Advocates for enforcement of equal-pay laws and new legislation addressing wage disparities between men and women.
- Plans to sponsor and support legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, and public accommodations.

- Supports funding to help families afford quality childcare.
- Supports free, healthy breakfast and lunch for all public-school students.
- Prioritizes funding for proven North Carolina public-school programs that improve educational outcomes and equitable opportunities.
- Supports raising public-school teacher salaries to levels comparable with other professions.
- Opposes subsidies for families choosing private schools and supports redirecting those funds to public schools.
- Supports expanded resources and funding for special-education programs.
- Supports increased investment in career and technical education programs.
- Supports comprehensive school mental-health programs that provide students with access to counselors and mental-health professionals.

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Cook has served in the N.C. House since November, when she was appointed to fill the District 60 seat left vacant by Cecil Brockman. She is the founder of The Teacher’s Edge, a nonprofit centered on professional development for educators. She previously taught dance for Guilford County Schools and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools for 13 years. She says her priorities include establishing state-funded subsidies for health care, ensuring families can access affordable child care, and protecting and expanding voter access. Cook attended the University of Greensboro and earned a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from Gardner-Webb University in 2021. She lives in High Point. 

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