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Alisha Sonnier
Image of Alisha Sonnier
St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7
Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2029

Years in position

2

Predecessor
Prior offices
St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education

Elections and appointments
Last elected

April 8, 2025

Education

Bachelor's

University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2019

Contact

Alisha Sonnier is a member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen in Missouri, representing Ward 7. She assumed office on April 18, 2023. Her current term ends on April 17, 2029.

Sonnier ran for re-election to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen to represent Ward 7 in Missouri. She won in the general election on April 8, 2025.

Biography

Alisha Sonnier was born in Missouri. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri - St. Louis in 2017. Her professional experience includes being a mental health advocate and an organizer.[1]

Elections

2025

See also: City elections in St. Louis, Missouri (2025)

General election

General election for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7

Incumbent Alisha Sonnier defeated Cedric Redmon in the general election for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7 on April 8, 2025.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alisha Sonnier
Alisha Sonnier (Nonpartisan)
 
66.5
 
2,594
Cedric Redmon (Nonpartisan)
 
33.5
 
1,308

Total votes: 3,902
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Nonpartisan primary election

The primary election was canceled. Incumbent Alisha Sonnier and Cedric Redmon advanced from the primary for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7.

Endorsements

Sonnier received the following endorsements.

2023

See also: City elections in St. Louis, Missouri (2023)

General election

General election for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7

Alisha Sonnier defeated Jon-Pierre Mitchom in the general election for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7 on April 4, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Alisha Sonnier
Alisha Sonnier (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
60.6
 
1,470
Jon-Pierre Mitchom (Nonpartisan)
 
38.5
 
933
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.9
 
23

Total votes: 2,426
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Nonpartisan primary election

St. Louis uses approval voting, where voters may cast ballots for any number of candidates. A candidate's Approval Percentage is the number of votes cast for the candidate as a percentage of all votes cast. Under this system, the two candidates who receive the most votes advance to the general election.
Nonpartisan primary for St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7
Candidate % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Alisha Sonnier (Nonpartisan) 60.81% 1,108
Green check mark transparent.png Jon-Pierre Mitchom (Nonpartisan) 40.12% 731
Cedric Redmon (Nonpartisan) 35.29% 643
There were no incumbents in this race. Total votes: 2,482
Source: St. Louis certified primary results, 2023 The results have been certified.

2021

See also: St. Louis Public Schools, Missouri, elections (2021)

General election

General election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education (3 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education on April 6, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Natalie Vowell
Natalie Vowell (Nonpartisan)
 
15.8
 
20,469
Antionette Cousins (Nonpartisan)
 
12.0
 
15,487
Image of Matt Davis
Matt Davis (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
11.5
 
14,922
Image of Alisha Sonnier
Alisha Sonnier (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
11.5
 
14,893
Image of Emily Hubbard
Emily Hubbard (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
11.5
 
14,808
Image of Daffney Moore
Daffney Moore (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
10.9
 
14,126
David Merideth (Nonpartisan)
 
8.5
 
10,952
Image of Bill Haas
Bill Haas (Nonpartisan) (Unofficially withdrew)
 
7.9
 
10,205
Image of David Jackson
David Jackson (Nonpartisan)
 
5.5
 
7,062
Image of J.L. Quinones
J.L. Quinones (Nonpartisan) Candidate Connection
 
4.3
 
5,584
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
697

Total votes: 129,205
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Endorsements

To view Sonnier's endorsements in the 2021 election, please click here.

Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Alisha Sonnier did not complete Ballotpedia's 2025 Candidate Connection survey.

2023

Candidate Connection

Alisha Sonnier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sonnier's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am Alisha Sonnier. I am a public servant, mental health advocate, leader, and visionary who is passionate and dedicated to all thing’s community empowerment, social justice, and liberation. I was born and raised in Saint Louis, MO, where my calling to serve the community came as natural to me as breathing. My goal is to be the representative that every Seventh Ward resident deserves, a representative who genuinely cares for them, understands city processes and policies, and who will help them and advocate for them. My experience as an organizer during the Ferguson Uprising and as a member of the Board of Education for the city of Saint Louis have both been life changing and transformative for me. These service-focused leadership roles have allowed me to see our city as I never did before. I want to serve as the Seventh Ward Alderwoman because I understand what it’s like to navigate this city with every barrier stacked against you. I have a decade of leadership experience and fierce advocacy as an organizer and as an elected official. While on the SLPS Board of Education, I have served on the TIF Commission, helped raise the District’s minimum wage to $15, and helped St. Louis to become second in the state in teacher pay. I also helped to organize a citywide campaign, Prop S, to allocate $160 million dollars to upgrade our school buildings. Outside of the BOE, I’ve served as the Political Director for President Megan Green’s most recent campaign.
  • My goal is to be the representative that every Seventh Ward resident deserves, a representative who genuinely cares for them, understands city processes and policies, and who will help them and advocate for them.
  • Our city should be a place where all of us can thrive. Everyone deserves to identify themselves for themselves, and to be treated with respect, compassion, and dignity. I am an ally to the LGTBTQIA+ community, believe in racial justice as a practice, am a fierce advocate for reproductive rights, and support our immigrant neighbors.
  • The 7th Ward deserves an accessible alderperson who listens and truly represents the voices of the ward. I am committed to being there for all constiuents by hosting monthly town halls, open office hours, and implementing participatory budgeting.
Community Question Featured local question
As alderwoman, I am committed to hosting monthly town halls for the Seventh Ward, in addition to attending each neighborhood association’s monthly meetings or having a representative present. These monthly town halls will serve as a central place where I can hear feedback from anyone in the ward - resident, employee, or business owner - about what they are experiencing, what challenges they are facing, and what’s working well and what isn’t. I will also have conversations and receive input on all things that require a vote, such as development projects and policy changes. For each town hall, I hope to also have childcare and food available to meet the needs of our residents and allow all to participate. I also plan to set annual goals of how many new registered voters I would like to see in the new seventh, and ensure that these newly registered voters receive my newsletter and have access to my social media, and are aware of the monthly town halls I would host as alderwomen.

Additionally, I plan to implement participatory budgeting, an engaged process that involves residents’ direct input on how ward capital funds are spent each year. The more opportunities we provide for residents to engage in decision making the more empowered they are and the more likely they are to vote.
Community Question Featured local question
Equity can’t exist without safety, but St. Louis has relied upon unsuccessful policies that have failed our people. For decades, crime has been one of the most pressing issues for our city, and it’s past time that we do something different and take a holistic approach to public safety that gets to the root of crime: poverty. As an alderperson,I will work to eradicate poverty through policies like Guaranteed Basic Income, which will allocate much-needed support to St. Louis families. I also support programs like Cops & Clinicians, which dispatches mental health professionals to respond to persons in crises, and I believe that more resources should be provided to programs like Cure Violence,and other community violence prevention programs like it.

I support the development of a traffic enforcement agency to actually help to create safer streets while freeing other police resources so as to focus on violent crime. I will fight for increased support for mental health & addiction recovery, supportive services, needle exchanges, and ending predatory cash bail practices that most strongly impact our lowest income communities.
My top three priorities and policies that I am passionate about are (1) a holistic approach to public safety, which

involves the eradication of poverty; (2) equitable development that maintains affordable housing
stock and doesn’t come at the cost of displacement of our neighbors; (3) and investment in

youth/education/family services and programs.
Mayor Tishaura Jones, Comptroller Darlene Green, President of the Board of Alderman Megan Green, Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia, Alderwoman Annie Rice, Alderman Dan Guenther, STL Young Dems, Pro Choice MO, Our Revolution, Laborers' Local 110, Laborers' Local 42, AFT Local 420, SEIU MO/KS, SEIU Healthcare MO/KS, Sierra Club, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Unite Here! Local 74

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2021

Candidate Connection

Alisha Sonnier completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2021. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Sonnier's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I am Alisha Sonnier; I am 25 years old; I am a student activist and advocate, and I was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. I’m more than proud to be vocally engaged in the fight to elevate our STL scholars and communities, and the events of Ferguson will forever remain in my memory and on my body. The murder of Michael Brown shaped me - because he was me. We were literally the same age and due to begin the next chapter of our lives that fall, and the fact that he will never have that option has been burned into my psyche since 2014, leading me to be an advocate of all kinds for the youth of St. Louis, but especially in educational spaces. After spearheading many actions across the STL region, becoming heavily involved in actions such as the Fight for $15, and working on political campaigns of compatriots from Ferguson, I now have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Missouri-St. Louis, and I am an unabashed mental health advocate. I truly believe that with community at the heart of everything we do we can nurture a holistic transformation of Saint Louis Public Schools and our children’s learning practices, and sincerely empower our scholars and parents for a healthier and wealthier future.
Mental Health, Education, Economic Equity, Criminal Justice Reform
August 9, 2014. The murder of Michael Brown. I was 18, just like him. I've been in the streets advocating for equity, justice, and liberation ever since.
To ensure every school in the district is a resource to the community, not just a building in it.
The 28 Wards of St. Louis City and all scholars and parents of Saint Louis Public Schools

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 2, 2021

Political offices
Preceded by
John Coatar
St. Louis Board of Aldermen Ward 7
2023-Present
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
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St. Louis Public Schools Board of Education
2021-2023
Succeeded by
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