LySaundra Janeé

LySaundra Janeé is a multidisciplinary storyteller, curator, and the founder of Social Soundtrack, a brand dedicated to community, storytelling, and healing across the African Diaspora through creative art and cultural expression. Her 15-year career as a prevention educator and communications strategist has led her to work with social justice organizations in Missouri, Tennessee, California, and Washington, D.C. Additionally, she spent five years as a piano and orchestra teacher in Missouri, Tennessee, and South Florida, and continues to advocate for creative arts as a form of activism and wellbeing. LySaundra Janeé is a 2021 and 2024 Anaphora Arts Writing Residency Fellow and her work can be found in the New York Writers Coalition anthology Common Unity, Rewire News, Sojourners, Chasing Justice, 21Ninety, The New Territory Magazine, Blavity, and more. She studied sociology and music performance at the University of Missouri-Columbia.