Heather Kirk-Davidoff

Fellow, Us@250

Heather Kirk-Davidoff (Minister) is an organizer and author currently serving as the Senior Minister of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Albany, NY.

Rev. Kirk-Davidoff was born in Schenectady, NY, and grew up in St. Paul, MN. She was ordained by the Minnesota Conference of the United Church of Christ in 1994. Prior to Westminster, Rev. Kirk-Davidoff served as the Interim Protestant Campus Minister at Union College in Schenectady, NY. She has served as minister of the Kittamaqundi Community Church in Columbia, MD, and the First Congregational Church of Somerville, MA, and directed the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington, DC.

Rev. Kirk-Davidoff is the co-author of two books, Talking Faith: An Eight Part Study on Growing & Sharing Your Faith and Dare to Dive In: Strategies and Resources for Involving Your Whole Church in Worship, as well as several book chapters and numerous magazine articles. She and Dan are parents of three adult children and an adult foster daughter. During the fellowship, she will continue work on the Westminster Commons initiative, a community-led program that seeks to bring people and groups in the New York Capital Region together across differences so that they can cultivate community, work together for the common good and enjoy life more.

Rev. Kirk-Davidoff is a graduate of Yale University (BA, 1989) and Harvard Divinity School (MDiv, 1994).