RESISTANCE: EQUITY DIVERSITY & INCLUSION (EDI)

THR offers Professional & Community Development training, consulting and coaching social and emotional learning and liberation frameworks. THR supports communities to expand their consciousness, accountability and vision towards more equitable, sustainable and inclusive outcomes. Participants learn to move from empathy to action and accountability in order to build working relationships that thrive on equity and justice.

Do you have an Equity Inclusion Action Plan? Managing the impact of Racism, Grief and Retention are the greatest areas of need in the workplace during this era of employment. Lately employees are asking "Where are the systemic support plans in the workplace?’ Equity Diversity and Inclusion is the resounding response and understanding Institutional Development matters — a lot.

Our Education and Coaching happens within the context of the individual and the larger community. Our development approach is for the group and the individual to help ensure the institution and the community within has the necessary support to do their best in developing Racial Equity. We offer education in:

• the historical development of race and power,

• transformative action values that institute progressive change and decision making,

• and wellness and social and emotional learning.

Equity Diversity and Inclusion learning and development are the future of employee retention, Group and Individualized. Learn more about developing these assets among your team.

Bias And Redistributing Power

THE HUMAN ROOT in Forbes Women by Molly Sprayregen February 16, 2019

Anyanwu is proud she made the decision to prioritize her values over more business, even though many people told her she was wrong. “I’ve had people say this business will never thrive because you’re not out there doing it the way everyone else is doing it,” she says. She believes her identity as a gender nonconforming, masculine of center, Black, gay woman helped give her this boldness. “I think being an entrepreneur you have to have a lot of courage, and you have to be unapologetic in a lot of ways.  Unlike many companies with similar missions who visit schools and workplaces for a few hours or days, The Human Root spends two to three years working with clients to help implement cultural and policy changes that last. “Our goal is to redistribute power based on the context of different forms of bias that show up,” Anyanwu says. (continue reading)

Photo: Anyanwu, Founder of The Human Root, leads college students in breathing exercises. - DOREEN PIERRE ‘19

THE HUMAN ROOOT Awarded

Brooklyn Public Library’s PowerUP! Business Plan Competition Award December 7, 2016 

A judging panel of business owners, advisors and funders selected THE HUMANROOT from a field of twelve finalists. The 2016 first-place prize is awarded to winner THE HUMANROOT, Professional Development Consulting Firm that serves schools, universities, non-profit organizations and businesses.

BK Entrepreneur Awards 2019

Celebrating Brooklyn Entrepreneurship, May 31st at BRIC in downtown Brooklyn the human root is highlighted the accomplishments of the entrepreneurs who have advanced their businesses and achieved success with the support of SBS and our partner nonprofits, including Business Outreach Center (BOC), the Brooklyn Public Library, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the Center for Family Life and the Local Development Corporation of East New York (LDCNY).