ABOUT KIMBERLY JEANNE SOENEN
I am the founder and executive director of "SOME PEOPLE," the organization and multiverse channel that examines the people, processes and systems that constitute the maintenance of, and barriers to, health. For ten years, the organization changed health legislation, policy and practices through various modules including reportage, investigative reporting and art. One module of "SOME PEOPLE" was UpCode, a high performing network of veteran investigative journalists and lawyers dedicated to assisting whistleblowers exposing White Collar Healthcare Crime.
My areas of expertise are White Collar Healthcare Crime, Single Payer Universal Healthcare, Fear of Reprisal-Free Cultures and Do No Harm Business Ethics. I speak publicly on the need to assign moral, ethical, cultural, social and economic value to lifelong healthcare maintenance. I also write about the urgent need to abolish the Commercial Health Insurance industry's Denial of Care Harm-for-Profit business model in the United States of America.
For five years, I was the managing editor of THE FINE PRINT Health Humanities Magazine on Substack. During my early career I worked for Harper’s Magazine in New York, National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C., and Kartemquin Films in Chicago. More recently, I was the Director of Global Business Development and Special Projects for VII Photo Agency / Foundation in New York.
As a young woman, I coordinated Illinois State Senator Barack Obama's press conferences in support of HR 676, the first Single Payer National Improved Medicare for All bill. I traveled with Dr. Quentin Young and a cohort of Universal Healthcare luminaries to Washington, D.C. as PNHP's media relations point to present the bill to the United States Congress. That bill has been unpdated and revised over the years and is now S.1506 - The Medicare for All Act.
I am the supervising producer of Fatal Neglect, the six-part Médecins Sans Frontières documentary series about Global Health and supervising producer of Long Shadow, a national journalism project about mass incarceration. For the DOC NYC film festival I curated VII Uncommissioned . I produced Defy about rape as a weapon of war for the International Rescue Committee and Under Cane which exposed the causes of Chronic Kidney Disease among sugar cane workers. One of the most impactful long-running projects I've worked on is Bring it to The Table.
My writing and editing have been published in the Index on Censorship, New York Times Well, Loyola Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Magazine, Gaper's Block, San Francisco Chronicle, Men's Journal, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Tarbell, The 2nd Hand, MILK, NPR, CNN, MinnPost, Pro Photographer, Chicago Sun-Times and the History in Africa Journal (Cambridge University Press) and many others.
I guest on broadcast media and at university and public forums discussing the economic benefits of Single Payer Universal Healthcare and the way in which it will leverage businesses and Public Health.
I proudly serve on the Advisory Council of the Phoenix Zones Initiative Institute for Universal Health, Rights and Justice and am also a member of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and the Association of Health Care Journalists.
I am a graduate of Benet Academy College Prep and Loyola University Chicago.
