(Photo by Marijke Thoen)
FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR​
DECEMBER 2025
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We are all living organisms, universally fragile and vulnerable. 


It takes only a split second for a life to be disrupted and altered in perpetuity by illness, injury, disease, disability, or death.
Despite modern methodologies aspiring to predict health conditions, health status, and health outcomes, none are absolute. Artificial Intelligence, data analysis, social demographics, algorithms, policy analysts, behavioral scientists, quants, and physicians cannot predict health. 


Health and healthcare—the very cornerstones of economic dignity—are essential to leveraging human potential to its fullest.
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What does economic dignity mean? It means self-worth, clean housing, access to economic capital, education, a healthy environment, strong supportive social networks, safe public spaces, and positive social structures. 


What does it mean to be fully human? Birth, adolescence, parenthood, family, compassion, athleticism, friendship, conflict, strife, mental illness, joy, harm, grief, pain, survival, laughter, illness, injury, empathy, intimacy, disability, overcoming physical limitations, End of Life, trust and love.
Through our "SOME PEOPLE" work, we strive every day toward educated, safe, equitable, just and healthful societies. We examine the people, processes, and systems that constitute the maintenance of, and barriers to, health for human beings. 


What we know is access to high quality healthcare benefits society.
What we know is prioritizing Public Health reduces violence and trauma.
What we know is affordable, accessible healthcare strengthens economies worldwide by leveraging human potential to the fullest.
And, we all know that carrying loved ones and strangers alike through life’s unpredictable and unexpected trials stabilizes communities globally.
A very promising trend is in our midst: The realization—perhaps a global revelation—that we are all undeniably interconnected.
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Now is the time to enact Senate Bill 1506 in the United States of America.
— Kimberly J. Soenen
Executive Director and Founder
“SOME PEOPLE”