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Jennifer Brouhard

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Jennifer Brouhard
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Oakland Unified Board of Education District 2
Tenure

2023 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

2

Predecessor
Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 8, 2022

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Jennifer Brouhard is a member of the Oakland Unified Board of Education in California, representing District 2. She assumed office on January 9, 2023. Her current term ends on January 11, 2027.

Brouhard ran for election to the Oakland Unified Board of Education to represent District 2 in California. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Brouhard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2022

See also: Oakland Unified School District, California, elections (2022)

General election

General election for Oakland Unified Board of Education District 2

The ranked-choice voting election was won by Jennifer Brouhard in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.


Total votes: 14,924
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Candidate Connection

Jennifer Brouhard completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Brouhard's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Jennifer Brouhard has lived in Oakland for over 40 years. Her three grown children and one grandchild attended Oakland public schools. She has been a public school teacher for 27 years. She was a special education teacher and later taught history in grades 4-8.

She is passionate about history education. She contributed to the California History/Social Sciences framework that guides history instruction for all California students. She developed curriculum for OUSD on the Chinese Exclusion Act, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and LGBTQ+ history. She has received several honors for teaching: a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, Teacher of the Year from UC Berkeley History Social Science Project, and California History Teacher of the Year from Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Jennifer is a union activist having been elected to three terms on the OEA Executive Board, one term as OEA secretary and as a site representative for over 20 years. Her experience has prepared her to serve her community as the School Board Director for District 2. She is endorsed by the Alameda County Democrats.


  • Invest in academic and social emotional outcomes for all Oakland students.
  • Fully fund our community schools to support students and families.
  • Build trust through engagement between the board and community.
The most important policy work has to be fully funding our community schools to support our students and families and to engage parents, students, and educators in that process. Our students and families have diverse academic and social emotional needs and we must fund first at the classroom and site level in order to meet these needs. We must invest in curriculum that builds academic and social emotional growth for all Oakland students. We must fund college and career readiness programs at both the state and local levels. We must comply with current legislation that requires the school district to engage directly with parents and the community to understand the impact of closing schools in our communities.

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