Kirk Ritchey
President of WHA’s Board of Directors

In 2021, Kirk founded, Woodstock Housing Alliance, a 501(c)3 nonprofit community land trust. As Board of Directors President, Kirk leads Woodstock Housing Alliance to  become a design-build affordable housing development company for Woodstock and  the surrounding rural communities.  

A Woodstock resident for 30 years, Kirk’s latest volunteer work has included chairing  the committee that authored the Town of Woodstock’s Comprehensive Plan, which resulted in its adoption in 2018, the first master plan adopted by the town board in 56 years. He was co-chair, for almost four years, of Woodstock’s Housing Committee that has been the incubator of local affordable housing ideas and helping residents understand the housing challenges Woodstock is facing. Kirk was also the co-chair of Woodstock’s Housing Oversight Task Force that wrote proposed new housing code updates, the first revisions to current code in nearly 40 years.  

Recently, as an advisor for Chronogram Media, Kirk provided consulting to Bard College on its operations strategic planning process, and RUPCO on a model for determining occupants of a  commercial property. He also advised Chronogram Media on the launch of “The River”, a Hudson Valley newsroom, now in its fifth year of operations. 

Kirk, for 23 years, worked in the corporate digital technology industry. His roles included business development executive, account and project manager, and team leader delivering, for  global organizations, enterprise-wide technology projects in supply chain optimization, data warehouse and business intelligence development, and centralized IT project management planning. 

Before his technology career,  Kirk applied his leadership in heavy construction project management, specializing in infrastructure renovation in New York City. Projects included Grand Central Station Mezzanine Level and Penn Station expansion.