kelly clark

Kelly Clark

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

La Kretz Hall, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90095

LA Waterkeeper

Faculty Advisors

Improving water management through technical solutions in business and government

Kelly Clark is passionate about creating sustainable solutions to environmental challenges.  She is currently a Staff Attorney at Los Angeles Waterkeeper where she leads the Industrial Stormwater Enforcement campaign and advocates for sustainable use of Los Angeles’ water resources. Kelly is joining the IoES ESE program to better equip herself to promote technical solutions to the environmental challenges we face.

Prior to joining LA Waterkeeper, Kelly represented clients in all areas of litigation in both state and federal courts. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable David Ezra in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas and was admitted to the Massachusetts and California bars.  Kelly possesses an undergraduate degree from Princeton University in Astrophysics, and a Master of Science from UCLA in Astronomy. She holds a Juris Doctorate from Cornell University .

Projects

Corporate Sustainability Transparency Index

The key to sustainability progress is understanding where we are and where we want to go. Using publicly disclosed information from the S&P 500, the Open For Good™ initiative has collected sustainability…

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2023 Open for Good Transparency Index

The mission of the Open for Good‘s initiative is to provide transparent, unbiased, and accessible insights into corporate sustainability. In the last decade, we have seen an encouraging shift by…

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Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

Firms have an outsized role in shaping the environmental and social trajectories of our global society. As investors, policy-makers, and the general public increasingly demand transparency to evaluate firms’ impacts,…

Recent Publications