Ward 6 - Councilmember Nelsie Yang | Saint Paul Minnesota

Welcome to Ward 6!

We are a proud working-class community, diverse across race, class, gender and age. We are proud of our business community, with forming business corridors are along Maryland Ave, White Bear Ave, Payne Ave, and Arcade St. From retail and restaurants to service providers and industry, Ward 6 has a lot to offer. Our neighborhoods include Frost Lake, Hayden Heights, Hazel Park, Payne/Phalen, Phalen Village, and Prosperity. Our community is also home to beautiful park and recreation spaces, including Saint Paul's largest park and lake, Phalen Regional Park! People here are proud to be called East-Siders. Come work, live, and explore!

View a map of the ward as of January 2023.

Ward 6 Business and Organization Directory

About the Ward 6 Office

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Councilmember Nelsie Yang was sworn into the Saint Paul City Council in January 2020. She is the youngest and first Hmong American woman elected as councilmember in the history of Saint Paul. Councilmember Yang is a daughter of Hmong refugees and the youngest of five children. She has a background in social work and social justice activism. She was inspired to get involved in political organizing to make change based on her lived experiences growing up in systemic poverty and racism. She is co-governing alongside people, labor unions, and organizations to build toward a society united across race, class, and gender, where working families live lives that are long, fulfilled, and joyful.
In an ideal world, no working family should have to experience the pain of not having enough. The reality we live in is far behind this ideal world. Many families today are living paycheck to paycheck; trapped in cycles of poverty. Rent has skyrocketed while our wages have not. Jobs are limited in the East Side, creating barriers for youth and millennials, especially when it comes to joining the workforce.
Councilmember Yang is a dedicated fighter, a racial equity organizer, and a former union steward. Her work has always been dedicated to addressing these issues head-on, because this is how we build toward a society where we dismantle systems of oppression, bigotry, white supremacy, racism, and racial capitalism, which benefit from the labor of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and working-class people. Councilmember Yang worked in campaigns to raise the minimum wage to $15, to pass Earned Sick and Safe Time, to ensure renters have rights, to support small businesses, to ensure democratic rights are equitable toward people with criminal records and people of color, and to elect boldly progressive candidates into office. As a councilmember, she continues to champion these issues to ensure we live in a community where everyone is in and no one is out—no exceptions.

Request a Meet & Greet with Nelsie Yang

Want to meet your councilmember? Please email us to request a 15 minute Meet & Greet with Nelsie Yang. Meetings are held virtually over Microsoft Teams (phone number and link provided). Meetings are available weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Email CC-Ward6@stpaul.gov

Let us know what days and times work best with you (Tuesdays or Thursdays, mornings or afternoons) and key topics you'd like to discuss.

Apply for a Year Round STAR Grant

Do you own a business or run a non-profit in St Paul's 6th Ward? Are you in need of funding for a time-sensitive building repair or improvement? You may be eligible for a Year-Round STAR Grant from Ward 6. Please email our office at Ward6@ci.stpaul.mn.us with information on your project and to receive an application. Applications are subject to approval from the St Paul STAR Board and St Paul City Council. Funding is given as reimbursement for approved expenses, up to $15,000 per project per year.