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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, Public and Global Health.
Her areas of expertise are: White Collar Healthcare Crime, Best Practice, Quality of Care, Non-privatized Single Payer Healthcare policy, and Do No Harm business ethics.
During her early career she worked for Harper’s Magazine (intern), National Public Radio in Washington, DC, and Kartemquin Films. More recently, she was the Director of Global Business Development and Special Projects for VII Photo Agency in New York.
Soenen has been personally harmed by the Commercial Health Insurance industry in the United States. She has been 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 profit from intentionally—deliberately—untreated illness, injury, disability and death.
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 worldwide, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Mass Incarceration, Chronic Illness, the dangers of Off-Label Marketing and more.
From 2002-2003, she coordinated the Single Payer press conferences for Illinois State Senator Barack Obama. She worked directly with Dr. Quentin Young on media relations, OpEds, organizing and social impact messaging. She traveled to Washington, D.C. to present the first National Single Payer Universal Healthcare bill (HR 676, now S. 1605) to Congress in partnership with David Satcher, Marcia Angell, Steffie Woolhandler, David Himmelstein, and many other Universal Healthcare luminaries.
Soenen has led global multimedia teams and collaborated with bureaus and verticals around the world, including data, investigative, documentary and photojournalism, to produce in-depth narratives, top-tier accountability journalism, visually-impactful essays and high-caliber storytelling across multiverse platforms.
For two decades she has led UpCode, the national investigative journalism network that has teamed to successfully expose White Collar Healthcare Crime across the Commercial Health Insurance ecosystem.
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 and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago. She serves on the Advisory Council of The Phoenix Zones Initiative Institute for Universal Rights, Health and Justice.
She has never invested in Commercial Health Insurance companies or related industry bad actors and is currently uninsured to actively divest and reject Harm-for-Profit.
She is a graduate of Benet Academy College Prep and Loyola University Chicago.