Anna Chouteau is deeply committed to finding solutions to the pressing challenges of our day by bringing people together on the common ground of their shared interests and greater purpose. She believes that the health of the community is tied to our shared vulnerability and that our strength lies in the bonds we forge through family, friends and society. 

Anna’s entry into public service was a direct response to the recent divisive and exclusionary trends in partisan politics.  Anna believes that the solution starts here, in our community, in how we listen to each other, in our attention to those in greatest need, in our stewardship of the natural resources we depend on and in our will to find common purpose and a way forward.

Anna was elected to the St. Helena City Council in 2018. Working with the council and the community, Anna has helped secure child care for families in need during the pandemic, a grant to support youth and family mental health services, improve local emergency preparedness for wildfires, proposed a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee with a seat for a youth representative, improved our roads and wastewater plant adding the ability to recycle water in the future, adopted a general plan with a chapter on climate change and used it to drive a list of action items, and secured with her council from a single hotel project over three million dollars for affordable housing and additional money for a future recycled water system.