Sara Vernetta Finney-Johnson (born January 25, 1957) is an American television producer, writer, and playwright.
She is best known as the co-creator, with Ralph Farquhar and Vida Spears, of the UPN sitcoms Moesha, starring Brandy, and The Parkers, starring Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique.
Before Moesha, Finney-Johnson and Spears had been a long-term writing team, the first African-American female writing team in the television industry..[1] Her other credits as a writer include The Jeffersons, 227, and The Parent 'Hood.
With Erwin Washington, she founded the Los Angeles Black Playwrights group in 1986.
[3] Finney was married to Robert Lee Johnson, Jr., a financial broker and artist; he died in 2014.