Libby Roderick – Turtle Island Records

Libby is an internationally recognized, award-winning singer/songwriter and recording artist whose music has been featured on CNN, CBS, at the UN conference in Beijing, at the Ms. Foundation, the World Wilderness Congress, by the Associated Press, and in many other forums. One of her songs was played on the planet Mars by NASA to inspire the robot “Spirit.” She has performed alongside Coretta Scott King, shared the stage with Grammy award-winning artists, and appeared at colleges, universities, conferences and folk venues throughout North America. Her seven recordings have received worldwide airplay and her essays, poems and songs have appeared in numerous movies, books and publications, including Hometown by Pulitzer-prizewinner Tracy Kidder. She has been honored by the Alaska Legislature for her activism, and is a Rasmuson Individual Artist Fellow, and an Alaska Woman of Achievement.

Libby is also Director of the Difficult Dialogues Initiative and Vice Chair of the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center. She is Associate Editor of Start Talking: A Handbook for Engaging Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education, co-author of Stop Talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education; editor of Alaska Native Cultures and Issues; and editor of Toxic Friday: Resources for Addressing Faculty Bullying Higher Education. She works with faculty across the U.S., and in South Africa to increase their capacity to effectively conduct difficult dialogues and to apply Indigenous ways of teaching and learning in higher education contexts.
http://www.difficultdialoguesuaa.org

Anchorage, Alaska
USA

907-278-6817

Website: http://www.libbyroderick.com