Noah Kippley-Ogman, PhD
finance and accounting for a better world
Noah Kippley-Ogman is Controller and Director of Finance at a multi-entity strategic communications organization focused on winning the politics of climate. In New York's Hudson Valley, Noah chairs the Kingston Rent Guidelines Board and serves as treasurer of the United Way of Ulster County, where he was interim executive director in 2024.He previously led financial planning and analysis at a national organization championing the rights and leadership of domestic workers. Before that, he managed foundation relations at a nationally-recognized organization providing world-class liberal arts degree programs in prison and post-release professional development programs. He has taught at CUNY College of Staten Island; New York University, where he earned his PhD; and the University of Illinois at Chicago.Noah studied the history of fundraising for higher education and its effects on American colleges and universities. His dissertation was a study of the way that routine higher education fundraising grew as a profession over the twentieth century as colleges and universities both public and private increasingly relied on private gifts to balance their annual budgets.At NYU, Noah’s teaching was recognized with NYU Steinhardt’s Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award. He was a leader of the Graduate Teaching Collaborative in the History Department and the Steinhardt ASH Doctoral Forum and served in professional roles in NYU’s Heyman Program for Philanthropy and Fundraising and the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. He was also a research assistant for President Arthur Levine of the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (then the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation) and for NYU professors Bethamie Horowitz, James Fraser, and Catharine Stimpson. His university service was recognized with the school’s highest honor for a graduating student, the NYU Steinhardt Commencement Banner Bearer Award.Noah earned a Bachelor of Arts with distinction in Natural Sciences and Social Sciences from Shimer College in Chicago and is a native of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before pursuing his PhD, Noah was a fundraising professional at educational organizations in Chicago and fundraising consultant to organizations in Chicago and New York City. He has served on governing and advisory boards of The Bronfman Fellowship, Danebod Family Camps, and Shimer College.