Libby Roderick

Libby Roderick
Roderick as a guest on a Portland, Maine radio station in 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Elizabeth Roderick
Born	c. 1958 (age 58–59)
Origin	Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.
Genres	Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Instruments	singing, guitar
Years active	1985–present
Labels	Turtle Island Records
Website	www.libbyroderick.com

Libby Roderick (born 1958) is an 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. 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 Native issues.