Our Leadership
Rooted in purpose. Guided by values. Committed to transformation.
We lead with strategy and soul-creating spaces where people and organizations can heal, grow, and thrive.
EDUCATION
M.A., Human Rights & Educational Justice, University of San Francisco,
Prof. Certificate, Child and Adolescent Psych, University of California, Berkeley Extension
B.A., Pan-African Studies, California State University, Northridge
To return people to their center. To build power that does not harm the body. To cultivate clarity that sustains vision. To create spaces where liberation is practiced-not performed. - Anyanwu Glanville
ANYANWU
FOUNDER & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Lead Transformation Practitioner
For more than 28 years, Anyanwu has been building spaces where people can remember who they are.
She is the Founder and CEO of THE HUMAN ROOT, a Black woman-owned grassroots company committed to transformative change in communities and institutions. Her work has impacted more than 20,000 individuals, directly supporting over 1,800 educators, hundreds of families, and more than 15,000 students across more than 20 New York City Department of Education schools, multiple districts, universities, and organizations in New York and California.
Anyanwu is an educator, institutional leader, and social entrepreneur who has built school and learning environments rooted in cultural integrity, disciplined care, restorative practice, and collective responsibility. Her work centers the whole child, honors ancestral knowledge, and strengthens educators so they can sustain themselves while guiding young people toward purpose and freedom.
She has delivered keynote addresses to audiences as large as 3,800, including sharing space with Dr. Maya Angelou. She has been featured in Forbes Women, recognized as Brooklyn Entrepreneur of the Year, and won 1st place in the PowerUp Business Competition. But titles are not what define her.
What defines her is endurance.
Her life has been shaped by Caribbean roots, Marin City activism, surviving gun violence, navigating PTSD, and recovering from breast cancer. Each experience refined her discernment. Each season clarified her purpose.
NATASHA A. MARSHALL
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Lead Transformation Practitioner
Natasha A. Marshall serves as Chief Operating Officer of THE HUMAN ROOT, where she leads organizational operations, strategic implementation, partnership development, and systems stewardship.
An award-winning racial equity strategist and organizational consultant, she has influenced more than 100 organizations and contributed to initiatives that have impacted over one million people through leadership development, coalition-building. and community-centered systems change.
Her work is grounded in relational trust, courageous dialogue, collective care and sustainable change.
The Founders Philosophy
POWER THAT IS NOT REGULATED WILL FRAGMENT. LEADERSHIP THAT IS NOT EMBODIED WILL BURN OUT. HEALING THAT IS NOT COMMUNAL WILL ISOLATE.
