About the Human Repair Workshop
The Human Repair Workshop is a women and BIPOC led group equipping mission‑driven organizations with the systems, skills, and support required to turn care into coordinated action. We help leaders build the conditions for impact: the routines, agreements, and relational practices that make accountability feel humane, shared, and doable. Our methodology, The Road to Repair, weaves healing‑centered leadership, systems analysis, and practical implementation design so teams can move from intention to dependable, repeatable practice.
We have spent years inside the systems we now support, including public agencies, schools, nonprofits, economic development, foundations, and coalitions working alongside communities most impacted by harm. Our team has built operational infrastructure that holds people with dignity, facilitated repair‑oriented processes that restore trust, and designed systems that reduce friction while increasing a team’s capacity to follow through. That combination of technical expertise and lived proximity allows us to translate complex missions into clear, humane, sustainable architecture: defined roles, measurable outcomes, shared agreements, and routines that work even when conditions are hard (and they always get hard, at some point).
We organically came together while leading statewide and cross-sector systems‑change efforts and saw the same pattern everywhere: people cared deeply, but their organizations weren’t designed to sustain their impact. The Human Repair Workshop was created to close that gap and to give leaders repair tools, implementation blueprints, and people-centered systems that strengthen culture, support accountability, and outlast any single leader or moment.
We work across three lanes:
Learning experiences that build practical skill, increase emotional and relational capacity, and embed healing‑centered principles into everyday practice;
Organizational strengthening that aligns operations with values and creates the internal conditions for staff to shine; and
Strategy and implementation architecture that translates priorities into coordinated action, shared responsibility, and sustainable rhythms.
In all of HRW’s work, we keep people at the center. We design systems that repair what’s frayed, honor human complexity, and create the internal conditions where positive outcomes can flow—consistently, sustainably, and with integrity.
Meet Our Team
Monica Rodriguez
Executive Director
Monica is the brains behind Human Repair Workshop, leads organizational strategy, operations, and board relations. She is endlessly curious and creative, designing dynamic solutions informed by data with a focus on translating complex missions into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and sustainable infrastructure. Monica explores the conditions for impact and creates magic for partners and our internal team.
With over a decade of experience guiding cross-sector partnerships and leading organizational transformation, Monica has built a reputation for turning reflection into structure and intention into practice. Her passion is creating operational systems that hold both people and accountability, so that repair isn’t just possible, it’s built in.
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Sarah Zyburt
Director of Strategy & Partnerships
Sarah is the connective tissue for Human Repair Workshop, using her passion for authentic connection and systemic design to create and sustain relationship and customer satisfaction from first contact throughout productive partnerships. She comes from a background working with broken and stuck systems and believes in the power of small but powerful shifts creating sustained positive changes.
Sarah is passionate about lived experience shaping end-user experience and will keep your team grounded in positive systemic outcomes resulting from improved individual conditions for impact.
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Brooke Albert
Director of Learning & Practice
Brooke is the heart of Human Repair Workshop, stewarding the purpose and practice of the work as it comes to life with real people in real systems. Her leadership helped inspire the formation of the organization and continues to shape how its values are translated into action.
Brooke leads learning design, facilitation strategy, and practice integration, ensuring that Human Repair Workshop’s work is not only meaningful, but usable and durable. She specializes in helping organizations turn vision into shared language, clear expectations, and repeatable practices that hold both people and accountability.
Known for her grounded presence and clarity in complex moments, Brooke supports leaders and teams to navigate conflict, name hard truths, and repair trust without relying on control, punishment, or avoidance. Her work builds internal capacity so organizations can sustain healing-centered leadership, even under pressure.
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Effie Alofoje-Carr
Lead Trainer
Effie is the voice of Human Repair Workshop. She is so dynamic and inspiring that to meet her is to want to work with her. As Lead Trainer, Effie designs and facilitates workshops that make the practice of repair real and reachable, empowering partners to examine and improve their practices and conditions for impact.
Her years of experience working alongside communities most impacted by harm, allows Effie to create spaces that are accessible, participatory, and rooted in dignity. She specializes in helping teams navigate tough conversations while reminding them of their passion and their own personal “why”. Effie’s facilitation bridges lived experience and professional skill, equipping leaders and staff to bring healing-centered principles into everyday practice.
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We’re always looking to connect with people who believe in this work. If you think you might be a good fit as a trainer or facilitator, leave us a note. As we expand our portfolio, we’ll be seeking practitioners who are interested in helping organizations learn, practice, and sustain repair.