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 part of the 2025 EmergeNYC artistic lab 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. 

LySaundra 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, New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), and Sigma Alpha Iota Music Fraternity.