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{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}

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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->

| name = Libby Roderick

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| birth_date = c. {{Birth year and age|1958}}

| death_date =

| origin = [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], [[Territory of Alaska]], [[United States|U.S.]]US

| instrument = [[singing]], [[guitar]]

| genre = [[Folk music|Folk]]

| occupation = [[Singer]], [[songwriter]]

| years_active = 1985–present

| label = Turtle Island Records <!-- although template instructions say "don't include Records in name," in this case it's necessary to distinguish this Anchorage-based indie label from the Native American label Turtle Island Music -->

| website = [httphttps://www.libbyroderick.com/ www.libbyroderick.com]

}}

'''Libby Roderick''' (born 1958) is an [[United States|American]] singer, songwriter, recording artist, poet, activist, and teacher. The global impact of her song "How Could Anyone" has been featured on CNN, on CBS, and in the Associated Press. Her music has been featured at the U.N. Conference on Women, with Coretta Scott King and Walter Cronkite in Washington D.C., and played on Mars by NASA. She has toured extensively throughout North America, playing at folk venues, conferences, and universities.

==Personal life==
She was born and raised in [[Anchorage, Alaska]], where she still lives part of the time. Her father, [[John "Jack" Roderick]], a Yale football star, was mayor of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, and her late mother, Martha, was a renowned Alaska educator. Libby graduated ''summa cum laude'' from [[Yale University]] in American Studies, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator and writer on [[Alaska Natives|Alaska Native]] issues.

Libby is also the cousin of [[John Roderick (musician)|John Roderick]], Seattle-based podcaster and singer/songwriter.

==Discography==

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==Writings==

* 1985. ''Alaska Women's History Resource Booklet''. Anchorage, AK: Western Media Concepts. Produced by the Alaska Women's History Project.

* 1999. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070403074749/http://www.libbyroderick.com/thisholyearth.html "This Holy Earth."] In ''Prayers for a Thousand Years''. Ed. by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, pp.&nbsp;192–193.

* 2001. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070403074810/http://www.libbyroderick.com/anothercountry.html "Another Country."] In ''Arctic Refuge: A Circle of Testimony''. Ed by Hank Lentfer and Carolyn Servid. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, pp.&nbsp;64–65.

* 2008. Associate Editor, Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, ed by Kay Landis. (httphttps://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/handbook.cfm) University of Alaska Anchorage.

* 2010. Editor, Alaska Native Cultures and Issues. University of Alaska Press.

* 2010. "Winter Wheat" In Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, ed. Kathleen Dean Moore. Trinity University Press.

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==Further reading==

* [httphttps://articleswww.latimes.com/2005archives/la-xpm-2005-oct/-23/news/-admn-globalsong23-story.html How Could Any One Song Ever Touch So Many? -– Los Angeles Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=z1IpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MmsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3611,3392764&dq=libby-roderick&hl=en Sun Journal -– Google News Archive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [http://www.gazettetimes.com/entertainment/music/the-sound-of-awareness/article_bee77b18-9af7-11e1-859a-001a4bcf887a.html The sound of awareness<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3aopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W_EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4805,3072222&dq=libby-roderick&hl=en The Idaho Spokesman-Review -– Google News Archive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WO&p_theme=wo&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADF8809F7EE67E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Worcester Telegram & Gazette Archives<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3aopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=W_EDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4805,3072222&dq=libby-roderick&hl=en The Idaho Spokesman-Review -– Google News Archive Search<!-- Bot generated title -->]

* [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=101A085C5BD043FF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM "New face on Mars folk scene."] Anchorage Daily News.

==External links==

* [httphttps://www.libbyroderick.com/ Official website]

* [https://www.myspace.com/libbyroderick Libby Roderick on Myspace]

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