About Us

What We Do

The Human Repair Workshop is a women and BIPOC-led organizational consulting and training firm. We help mission-driven organizations build the internal conditions they need to do their work well, and sustain it over time. That means strengthening how teams communicate, how decisions get made, how accountability is shared, and how relationships are repaired.

Why Us?

We have spent careers inside the systems we now support. Public agencies. Schools. Nonprofits. Coalitions. Foundations. We know what it feels like when the work is important, but not sustainable. We founded HRW to offer something different: practical tools and structures that help mission-driven organizations close the gap between what they aspire and what they achieve.

Above all, we believe organizations can be places where people are well and the work is sustainable.

Meet the Team

Monica Rodriguez

Executive Director

Monica is the brains. She leads organizational strategy and operations for HRW. She has over a decade of experience guiding cross-sector partnerships and leading organizational transformation. Her focus is on translating complex missions into clear plans, measurable outcomes, and operational systems that are built to last. Monica is curious, creative, and committed to building organizations where accountability feels humane and doable.

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Sarah Zyburt

Director of Strategy and Partnerships

Sarah is the tissue. She leads partnership development and relationship strategy at HRW. She comes from years of work inside complex, stuck systems and has a deep understanding of how small, targeted shifts create lasting change. Sarah is the person in the room who keeps the conversation grounded in what the work actually requires — and who makes sure that partners feel supported from the first conversation through the end of the engagement.

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Brooke Albert

Director of Learning and Practice

Brooke is the heart. She leads learning design, facilitation strategy, and practice integration. Her leadership helped shape the founding of HRW and continues to drive how its values come to life in real settings with real teams. Brooke specializes in helping organizations turn shared values into shared language and repeatable practice. She is known for her ability to hold complexity with clarity — helping teams name hard things, repair what has broken, and build the habits that prevent it from breaking the same way again.

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Effie Alofoje-Carr

Training and Implementation Specialist

Effie is the voice. She designs and leads HRW's training experiences. She brings years of direct experience working alongside communities most impacted by harm, and she creates learning spaces that are accessible, participatory, and rooted in dignity. Effie has a gift for meeting people exactly where they are — helping teams move through hard conversations without losing sight of why the work matters to them. Her facilitation connects lived experience to professional practice in ways that are both concrete and lasting.

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