LySaundra Janeé is a multidisciplinary storyteller, musician, and the founder of Social Soundtrack, a brand dedicated to community, storytelling, and healing across the African Diaspora through creative and performance art. She’s worked for over a 15 years with mission-driven organizations at the collegiate, local, state, and national levels, including Prevention Institute, the National Women’s Law Center, and the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

As an artist, she leverages themes of Black feminism, magical realism, and African spirituality to create stories encouraging radical imagination, communal healing, and joy. Fellowships, workshops, and residencies include: UNTITLED Musical Writers Group, BMI Musical Theatre Songwriters Workshop, EmergeNYC (BAX), lordship house, Anaphora Literary Arts, We, As Ourselves (Center for Cultural Power), The Words Between Us (New York Writers Coalition), and the Just Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders Fellowship (Center for Justice & Renewal). Her words are found in the New York Writers Coalition anthology Common Unity, midnight & indigo, The New Territory Magazine, Sojourners, 21Ninety, and more.

Current Works: new musicals ZAHRAH (2024 Anaphora Arts Residency) and COMBAHEE (2025 EmergeNYC/Brooklyn Arts Exchange), TV pilot WE, THE FEMINISTS (2025 Women’s Independent Film & Television Festival Finalist), and short film HER WATERS (2025 Afrofuturist Femmes Film Festival Selection, 2025 Women’s Independent Film & Television Festival Finalist, The Makers Space, 2024 New York Screenwriting Award Finalist).

Selected Credits: intimacy coordinator for short film SQUATTER (Dir. Ruby Rose Collins, SIRXN Productions, 2026), intimacy choreographer for SWEET BLOOD play (Playwright Camille Simone Thomas, Jack NY, 2025), violinist & composer for JUNKANOOACOME (Creator Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Governor’s Island/KODA House, 2025), music supervisor for short film DATING DAZE (Dir. Cason Suggs, MDM Productions, 2023), writer for digital series WE, THE FEMINISTS (National Women’s Law Center, 2021-2022).

LySaundra holds a M.A. in Art Politics from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and a B.A. in Sociology and a Multicultural Studies certificate from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received training as an intimacy professional through the Somatica®Method and Theatrical Intimacy Education. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Maestra, and Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity.