Brian Archie is co-chair and change agent for the Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission for the City of Niagara Falls and he is a member of the NAACP. Archie works at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center while also pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Business-Project Management at Bryant & Stratton College. He is a life-long resident of Niagara Falls, currently residing in the North End/Highland area. Archie hopes that by participating in the Emerging Leaders Class of 2018 with Open Buffalo that the experience will expand his ability to organize, support and build a community capacity for change in the Buffalo Niagara region and abroad.