Appointed Rent Board

Undesignated Representative/ Interim Chair

Ms. Cucullu Lim's commitment to community service is at the core of her decision to volunteer with the Oakland Rent Adjustment Program (RAP) Board. She is currently a Program Director with OneJustice where she focuses on providing support to California's legal services providers. Prior to OneJustice she worked in direct legal services, including experience working with RAP.  Ms. Cucullu Lim also has a background in civil litigation. 

Kara Brodfuehrer is a long-term Oakland resident where she lives with her daughter and their dog and cat. She is currently a senior counsel with the State of California’s Civil Rights Department, where she focuses on educating Californians about their rights under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and other civil rights laws. She was previously a staff attorney with the National Housing Law Project, where she engaged in state and federal policy advocacy to improve tenants’ rights and increase the availability of affordable housing. Kara was also a Senior Attorney at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley’s Mental Health Advocacy, where she represented low‐income tenants with disabilities in unlawful detainers and civil rights impact litigation, including Huynh v. Harasz, a class action on behalf of section 8 voucher holders. Kara started her legal career at California Rural Legal Assistance Inc., focusing on improving public infrastructure, fair housing, and promoting environmental justice in disadvantaged unincorporated communities. She has a B.S. in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany and a J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law.

Landlord Representative

As Tenant Representative of the HRRR Board, Denard works with his fellow Board members and RAP staff to continue expanding our outreach; to ensure that enforcement of the Board’s duties authorized in OMC 8.22, including the Rent Adjustment Ordinance, is fair for both tenants and property owners; and to advise City Council on rent protections and housing policies that are centered in equity. Denard encourages ALL Oakland residents to attend our meetings, and voice their concerns regarding the City’s Rent and Housing laws, and regulations.

Denard received his B.A. in Psychology from Rollins College, and his M.A. in Child & Adolescent Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology; both of which he has utilized for over a decade of public service. As an Oakland resident, and Social Worker for the City and County of San Francisco, he knows how vital significant investments into housing are to many Californians. Working with individuals that are 65 and older, blind, and/or disabled, as well as children and families within the child welfare system, he sees first-hand the harmful impact of housing insecurity. This is further supplemented by Denard’s own experience with housing insecurity in his childhood and adult lives.

Denard is passionate about advocating for his tribes and manifests this through various volunteer engagements focused on social justice, and mental health. As part of his own mental health journey, Denard promotes the importance of physical, mental, and emotional self-care. He manages his work-life balance by reading, watching anime, adding to his vinyl collection, and making craft cocktails for friends. He also enjoys being surrounded by nature; one day he hopes to have a sunflower garden of his own.

Cinthya started organizing as a student in Sacramento leading efforts to fight the criminalization of young people of color. In the early 2000s, Cinthya spearheaded efforts to organize student walkouts, community forums and marches that led and contributed to the immigrant rights strikes of May 1, 2006.

From 2007 to 2015, Cinthya led the immigrant rights organizing work for Causa Justa :: Just Cause. During this period CJJC developed and successfully carried out campaigns to fight the entanglement of deportation programs with local police enforcement, pass policies to protect and advance the rights of immigrants and bring attention to the corporations who financially invest in and benefit from the incarceration and deportation of communities of color.

Cinthya led CJJC’s immigrant rights coalition work at the local, state and national level and was instrumental in the founding and coordinating of ACUDIR: Alameda County United In Defense of Immigrant Rights and SFIRDC: The San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee.

Cinthya is an alumna of the Women’s Policy Institute and the School of Unity & Liberation (SOUL) Summer School for youth organizers. She is a recipient of the Fellowship for a New California and served on the Board of Directors for CURYJ (Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice) and was a Planning Committee Member for Movement Generation.

Cinthya was Legislative Director for Alameda County District 2 from 2013-2021 and Chief of Staff for City of Oakland District 2 from 2021-2024. Cinthya currently serves as the Chief of Legislative Affairs and Community Safety for Alameda County District 5. 

Tenant Representative (Alternate)