Public Health Transformation through Strategic Communication, Journalism & Art

KIMBERLY J. SOENEN

Kimberly Soenen is the founder and executive director of "SOME PEOPLE", the multiverse channel that examines the people, processes and systems that constitute the maintenance of, and barriers to, health and healthy societies. Her areas of expertise are: Healthcare Industry Crime, Do No Harm Ethics, Reprisal-Free Work Cultures, Non-privatized Single Payer Universal Healthcare policy, Human Rights and Nonhuman Animal Rights.​

​​For two decades she has also led UpCode, the national investigative journalism network that has successfully exposed crime across the corporate medicine ecosystem.

​During her early career she worked for Harper’s Magazine and National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. More recently, she was the Director of Global Business Development and Special Projects for VII Photo Agency in New York. ​

​Since 1996, Soenen has worked for Oscar, Peabody, World Press, MacArthur and Pulitzer Award–winning organizations in media and policy. ​She has financed and produced Public Health reportage about Maternal Mortality, Chronic, Kidney Disease, PTSD, TBI, Polio Eradication, Hunger Eradication, Neglected Diseases, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Mass Incarceration, Chronic Illness and the the dangers of Off-Label Marketing.

Early in her career, she coordinated Single Payer Universal Healthcare press conferences for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. She worked directly with PNHP luminary Dr. Quentin Young on initiatives, events and articles that educated Americans about National Improved Medicare for All. In 2003, she traveled to Washington, D.C. with a cohort to present the first National Improved Medicare for All / Single Payer Universal Healthcare bill to Congress with Drs. David Satcher, Marcia Angell, Congressman John Conyers, Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, and many other Single Payer Universal Healthcare luminaries.

Since 1999, Soenen has led global multimedia teams and collaborated with journalism bureaus and verticals around the world. She has produced investigative reporting features, documentary films, photojournalism features, investigative journalism reports, essays and high-caliber storytelling across multiverse platforms. 

​​Her writing and editing have been featured in The Index on Censorship, New York Times Well, Washington Post, Chicago Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune Magazine, The 2nd Hand, MILK, NPR, CNN, MinnPost and the History in Africa Journal (Cambridge University Press) among others. ​

​​Soenen is a member of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, the Association of Healthcare Journalists and serves on the Advisory Council of The Phoenix Zones Initiative Institute for Universal Rights, Health and Justice.

She has been personally harmed by the commercial health insurance investment bank industry and is a lifelong advocate of enacting National Improved Medicare for All / Single Payer Universal Healthcare. She shares the belief with ethical medical professionals and responsible civic leaders that individuals and corporations should not be permitted to generate wealth from intentionally—deliberately—untreated illness, injury, disability and death.

​She is a graduate of Benet Academy College Prep and Loyola University Chicago.