As Director of Housing Finance for Related California, Ms. Kirkpatrick is responsible for providing financing strategy support to the development team to further the affordable pipeline. Her responsibilities include project level review, systems level support through knowledge sharing and best practices, new business support, training and research, and special projects.
Ms. Kirkpatrick brings 20 years of experience in affordable housing development and finance to Related. Prior to joining Related, Ms. Kirkpatrick worked in the public and private sector and has been involved in the creation, preservation and approval of over 5,250 affordable housing units with over $1.1 billion in total development costs. Most recently, she worked at Lendlease where she was responsible for the entitlements for more than 2,400 affordable housing units located in Silicon Valley within three large scale, mixed-use master plan developments.
Ms. Kirkpatrick holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College.
