Meet Our Team
About The Human Repair Workshop
Building the infrastructure for trust, accountability, and repair.
The Human Repair Workshop is a women- and BIPOC-led nonprofit that helps mission-driven organizations embed repair into daily operations. We design practical systems—decision paths, meeting rhythms, accountability tools—that make dignity and follow-through routine, not exceptional. Our methodology, The Road to Repair™, integrates restorative practice, systems analysis, and healing-centered organizational design so leaders can move from good intentions to dependable practice.
Our team has worked inside the very institutions we now serve—public agencies, schools, nonprofits, and coalitions—alongside communities most impacted by harm. We’ve facilitated truth-telling, rebuilt broken processes, and installed structures that reduce friction and increase trust. That combination of technical expertise and lived proximity allows us to translate values into design: clear roles, measurable goals, and routines that hold when things get hard.
We came together while leading statewide systems-change efforts and saw the same pattern everywhere: people cared, but the system wasn’t built to sustain repair. HRW was created to close that gap—to give leaders concrete tools, repeatable processes, and a shared language that makes accountability humane and achievable.
We work across three lanes: (1) learning experiences that transfer practical skills, (2) organizational strengthening that tunes operations to match values, and (3) strategy support that builds implementation architecture alongside priorities. In all of it, we keep people at the center and design for sustainability after we’re gone.
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Monica Rodriguez is the Executive Director of The Human Repair Workshop, where she leads organizational strategy, operations, and board relations. A systems designer and strategist, she translates complex missions into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and sustainable infrastructure. 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 work focuses on creating operational systems that hold both people and accountability—so that repair isn’t just possible, it’s built in.
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Brooke Albert serves as the Director of Learning & Practice at The Human Repair Workshop. She leads curriculum design, program delivery, and facilitator development, turning the organization’s framework, The Road to Repair™, into practical learning experiences that teams can immediately use. Brooke’s facilitation style blends restorative practice, adult learning, and trauma-informed design to help people navigate conflict, rebuild trust, and sustain new habits of accountability. Her approach transforms “training” into practice—embedding healing-centered leadership across every layer of an organization.
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Effie Alofoje-Carr is the Lead Trainer at The Human Repair Workshop, where she designs and facilitates workshops that make the practice of repair real and reachable. Drawing from years of experience working alongside communities most impacted by harm, Effie creates spaces that are accessible, participatory, and rooted in dignity. She specializes in helping teams use restorative language, navigate tough conversations, and close the loop with care. Her facilitation bridges lived experience and professional skill, equipping leaders and staff alike to bring healing-centered principles into everyday practice.
Join Us
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.