Sophie Ong serves as the Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA). She works to shape and drive the overall strategic priorities of the museum while advancing its operating model. Ong first joined TMA as a Smith College Curatorial Intern in 2012 before returning in 2020 as a Hirsch Curatorial Fellow, where she oversaw the museum's medieval and Islamic collections alongside her work with the glass and decorative arts collections. Before assuming her current role, Ong was a Brian P. Kennedy Leadership Fellow, a two-year executive and curatorial program designed to train the next generation of museum leaders. In addition to curating a variety of exhibitions for TMA from glass to Ethiopian art, Ong led the renovation and reinstallation of the Cloister Gallery to encompass an expanded view of the art of the Middle Ages. Her diverse acquisitions at TMA span the 5th–21st centuries, from a Frankish claw beaker and Sasanian silver to a 16th-century German wild man chandelier and contemporary glass sculptures and jewelry. 

Ong is a scholar of European medieval and Early Modern art with a secondary focus in Islamic art. She graduated cum laude with High Honors from Smith College, completing an art history major, chemistry minor, and museums concentration in art conservation. She earned her M.A. and is currently completing her Ph.D. in art history from Rutgers University. Her research has received support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Center of Medieval Art, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, and the Society for Jewellery Historians. Prior to TMA, Ong held museum appointments in curatorial, conservation, and education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, Smith College Museum of Art, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, and the Zimmerli Art Museum.