Since joining the board, Martinac has focused on climate resilience for tenants and served on the Eviction/Section 8/Foreclosure committee, the LIRA committee (Legislation, Individual Rent Adjustment and Registration), and the Outreach committee.

She chairs the Berkeley Tenants Union, leads the Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force, and has made substantial contributions to East Bay DSA’s electoral and housing work in Berkeley. She was a prominent organizer around Measure BB, Berkeley’s Rent Ordinance that passed in 2024, which expanded tenant protections and authorized the rights of tenants to unionize.

He maintains a close relationship with the Berkeley Tenants Union, a crucial partner to Councilmember Lunaparra, who established the Berkeley Tenant Organizing Task Force alongside the union and East Bay DSA. Micael is running to expand on Lunaparra’s work.

As an organizer for Richmond Progressive Alliance, he supported bringing people power and accountability to City Hall. He also played a critical role in winning a historic Alameda County divestment from genocide, the first county-level divestment of its kind in the United States.

Her campaign was closely tied to the fight against OUSD school closures. After winning, Brouhard joined Valarie Bachelor and the new Board majority in 2023 to rescind the planned closures of five elementary schools and one middle-school program.

One of her first major votes after taking office was to join the new Board majority in reversing the planned closures of five elementary schools and one middle-school program. Bachelor and Brouhard have also sponsored Board legislation addressing school closures and the relocation of special-education programs, including an effort to establish additional protections for disabled students whose programs are moved, redesigned, or closed.