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 art and cultural expression. Before launching Social Soundtrack, she worked in the nonprofit sector for more than a decade at the collegiate, local, state, and national levels at the intersections of racial and gender justice.

LySaundra graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a degree in Sociology and a Multicultural Studies certificate. She has worked with Prevention Institute, the National Women’s Law Center, the National Network to End Domestic Violence, state domestic and sexual violence coalitions, and crisis centers. LySaundra is a classically-trained violinist and pianist who formerly taught piano in Missouri and Tennessee and orchestra in Miami.

She was a 2021 Anaphora Arts Writing Residency Fellow and a 2024 Anaphora Arts Retreat Fellow in Lucca, Italy. Her work can be found in the New York Writers Coalition anthology Common Unity, Rewire News, Sojourners, Chasing Justice, 21Ninety, The New Territory Magazine, and more.

LySaundra sits on the Advisory Board for MDM Productions, Inc. and is a member of New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) and the Dramatists Guild.