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.
My areas of expertise are White Collar Healthcare Crime, Best Practice, Quality of Care, Single Payer Universal Healthcare, Fear of Reprisal-Free Cultures and Do No Harm Business Ethics.
I speak frequently and fluently on the need to assign moral, ethical, cultural, social and economic value to lifelong healthcare maintenance. I also write on, and teach about, the urgent need to abolish the Commercial Health Insurance industry's Denial of Care Harm-for-Profit model in the United States of America.
For five years, I was the managing editor of THE FINE PRINT Health Humanities Magazine on Substack. I was also the director of UpCode, the high performing network of veteran investigative journalists and lawyers dedicated to assisting whistleblowers exposing White Collar Healthcare Crime.
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.
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 which addressed pressing political and health issues globally. I financed and 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 has 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 frequently 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. I regularly read essays live on stage and on-air and have read on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, for 10 x 10 Chicago, at Uncommon Ground and other venues.
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.
