Keith Archuleta is President and CEO of Emerald Consulting, a company he founded in 1992 to build a comprehensive, collaborative approach to foster systems-change strategies designed to improve the lives of people, create healthy organizations and build sustainable communities.

He and his wife, Iris, have developed the High Performing Community model to guide initiatives that foster positive community outcomes, such as the Mayfair Neighborhood Improvement Initiative in San Jose, the Elementary Arts Education Program in San Francisco, the East County Business-Education Alliance in Contra Costa County, and the Youth Intervention Network in Antioch.

He is a firm believer in life-long learning. He earned two bachelor degrees from Stanford University - one in Communications with distinction and one in African and African American Studies with honors.  He has also earned a Masters degree in Nonprofit Organizational Management from the University of San Francisco. His work requires constant research, reading and study, and continuous learning.

Keith's experiences as a child, living in the projects of Denver, Colorado and then as a teenager working in the tobacco fields of segregated North Carolina, drew him as a young adult to become actively engaged in the betterment of people and the community. He has been an Assembly Fellow in the California Legislature, a volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, founder of the Youth Theatre Project in East Palo Alto and the Black Community Services Center at Stanford, and Site Administrator for the Young African American Achievers Program in San Francisco.

He has assisted numerous nonprofit organizations in capacity building, fund development, and strategic planning and has served as Executive Director of several bay area nonprofit organizations, including Contra Costa Court Appointed Special Advocates for children (CASA) for seven years.

Keith is the former Chairman/CEO of an internet-based start-up company in Silicon Valley and a former Regent of John F. Kennedy University in Walnut Creek. He is past President of the Opportunity Junction Board of Directors and is currently Vice President of Task Forces for the Contra Costa Council Board of Directors and Vice President of Finance for the Board of Directors of UrAtWork, Inc.

He is a member of the Pittsburg Rotary, the Dow Community Advisory Panel, the Pittsburg Adult Education Center Advisory Board, and the Antioch Unified School District Pathways Leadership Team. An ordained minister, he serves as Minister of Community Development at Antioch Christian Center.

Keith and his wife Iris reside in Antioch, California and have one son, one grandson, and one granddaughter.

Iris Archuleta is Co-founder and Senior partner of Emerald Consulting founder of UrAtWork and the architect of Emerald Consulting's High Performing Communities model.

Iris has been called upon to speak and lead discussions on the economic condition of California's inner city communities and on youth and community violence prevention. She has spoken before an extensive range of audiences and venues such as, The US Department of Justice, Project Safe Neighborhoods Conference, The Northern California Senior Law Enforcement Symposium, The California 13 Cities Project, Chairman Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Bank; Eugene Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency; the California State Legislature; the California Base Closure Hearings; the Alameda County Board of Supervisors; Leadership San Francisco; Kathleen Brown's Economic Summit; and the Southern California Urban League, and the Contra Costa County NAACP to name a few venues.

Mrs. Archuleta has served as an advisor on community development to public officials, community organizations, financial institutions and economic development agencies. She has served as an advisor and consultant to the President and CEO of Odwalla Corporation on minority and youth entrepreneurialism and has previously served as chief consultant to the Ecumenical Development Initiative - USA and the California Community Investment Partnership. These initiatives were aimed at small business development in inner cities and rural communities of California with high levels of poverty and unemployment.

She has also previously served as a Fellow with The Greenlining Coalition, a multi-cultural, statewide coalition of community groups committed to ending redlining and promoting community economic development.

Mrs. Archuleta has contributed her time and talents to youth development in the Bay Area for over 18 years and is currently the co-chair and co-designer of the Youth Intervention Network, (YIN) in Antioch, California.

Mrs. Archuleta has a degree in Political Science from the California State University at Hayward and a Law Degree from the John F. Kennedy University, College of Law