Drawing by Reveca Torres
Ms. Soenen is widely acclaimed for dedicating her career to educating people about the Commercial Health Insurance industry Denial of Care Harm-for-Profit business model.
KIMBERLY J. SOENEN
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.
Soenen has been personally harmed by the Commercial Health Insurance industry in the United States. She is a lifelong advocate of enacting a Single Payer National Health Program and she endorses Universal Healthcare / The Medicare for All Act. She shares the belief with ethical medical professionals that putting patients over politics is paramount to building a civil society and Harm-for-Profit should be illegal.
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 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.
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. She works with an international network of high performing journalists, producers, policy leaders and artists to improve Public Health policy through visual story telling, reporting and live events. For two decades, this investigative journalism network has teamed to successfully expose fraud and criminality across the Commercial Health Insurance industry and corporate healthcare 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.
Since 1999, she has owned UNSPUN Consulting & Productions. During her early career she worked for Harper’s Magazine, NPR in Washington, DC, Chicago Tribune books division, and Kartemquin Films. More recently, she was the Director of Global Business Development and Special Projects for VII Photo Agency in New York.
Soenen is a member of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a graduate of Loyola University Chicago.