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. Before launching Social Soundtrack, she worked for over a decade with public health and violence prevention 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. She is 2025 EmergeNYC artistic lab fellow with Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a 2025 lordship house residency fellow, a 2024 and 2021 Anaphora Arts Residency Fellow, and a 2021 Center for Cultural Power Artistic Fellow for We, As Ourselves national narrative campaign reframing perspectives of Black survivors of violence. 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 (Anaphora Arts Residency) and COMBAHEE (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), TV pilot WE, THE FEMINISTS (Women’s Independent Film & Television Festival Finalist), and short story HOLLY (Afrofuturist Femmes Film Festival Selection, the Women’s Independent Film & Television Festival Finalist, The Makers Space, New York Screenwriting Award Finalist). Credits: intimacy coordinator for SWEET BLOOD (JACK, Brooklyn), violinist/composer for JUNKANOOACOME (Governor’s Island, KODA), music supervisor for DATING DAZE (Afrikana Independent Film Festival, Kansas City Underground Film Festival), writer for digital series WE, THE FEMINISTS.

LySaundra is a 2026 Art Politics M.A. candidate at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, a 2025-2027 lyricist for the BMI Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop, and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a degree in Sociology and a Multicultural Studies certificate. She received training as an intimacy professional through the Somatica®Method and Theatrical Intimacy Education. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity.