Kimberly Ong

Kimberly Ong is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she leads the Place-Based team in the Environmental Health department. Prior to leading this team, she led the Northeast Fossil Free Team and advocated for safe drinking water in New York State, where she helped block three fracked gas pipelines and protected New York State drinking water from dangerous levels of PFAS, a man-made chemical linked with cancer, among other severe health effects. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked as an assistant attorney general at the New York State Office of the Attorney General and as an assistant corporation counsel in the Environmental Law Division of the New York City Law Department. Ong also worked as a research fellow at New York University School of Law’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and served as a law clerk for the Honorable John T. Nixon of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was an executive editor for the Review of Law and Social Change. She is based in New York.