Amanda Green

According to her campaign website, Green was born at the San Diego Naval Hospital and raised primarily in St. Petersburg.[6] She earned a bachelor's degree in 2015 and a graduate degree in 2017 from Florida State University, according to Ballotpedia, and says she studied international development, economics and public administration; her campaign website also lists international affairs and emergency management.[3][6] She began her career with what she calls a leading USAID partner organization, the largest implementing partner of the agency according to her campaign website.[3][6] She says she worked for about a decade as an operations director and pricing expert supporting global health programs, famine monitoring systems, and relief efforts in Ukraine.[3][6] According to WFSU, her campaign website says she worked for a subsidiary of USAID until the agency was cut back after President Trump returned to office.[4]

Green entered the race after Rep. Neal Dunn announced his retirement; Ballotpedia lists no earlier campaigns or offices for her.[3][4][7] She won the August 18, 2026 four-way Democratic primary over Yen Bailey, Nicholas Zateslo and Brice Barnes, and WFSU reports endorsements from the AFL-CIO and Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil.[3][4] Her campaign priorities included lowering housing and gas costs, banning congressional stock trading, enacting term limits, and holding regular in-person town halls across the district.[3] She ran on an affordability, anti-corruption and government-accountability platform.[2][3][4] She received 47.9% of the vote to Austin Rogers's 52.1%, according to unofficial results reported by NBC News.[1] Her campaign website says she now lives in the Big Bend region.[6]