Libby is an internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter, poet, activist, teacher and lifelong Alaskan. The surprising power and depth of her music and the humor and spontaneity of her performances have attracted large and enthusiastic audiences across the continent and fans all over the world. Her six recordings have received rave reviews and extensive airplay across the country. CBS 60 Minutes recently featured her song “How Could Anyone” in two special segments; in 2005, CNN did a piece on the worldwide healing impact of that anthem, and an Associated Press story about Libby was picked up by media from the New York Times to the Hindustani Times. In 2003, NASA played her song “Dig Down Deep” on Mars as encouragement to the robot “Spirit.” In 2005, the Alaska Legislature honored her for excellence in the arts and activism. Among many other venues, Libby has played for the Ms. Foundation, the national Bioneers, the International World Wilderness Congress, and shared the stage with Walter Cronkite and Marianne Williamson at the National Peace Alliance Conference. She has opened for Coretta Scott King at a peace conference in Washington D.C., as well as Grammy winners Janis Ian and Dave van Ronk.

Libby is well-known as an exhilarating and witty artist who offers a remarkable blend of passionate music, wry humor and incisive commentary on social and personal issues. Her folk classic, "How Could Anyone," has been translated into several languages, recorded by many artists, reprinted in many books (including Hometown by Pulitzer-prize winner Tracy Kidder), and sung by thousands, including Hillary Clinton, at the U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing. The premiere national U.S. folk magazine, Dirty Linen, calls Libby "one of the most compassionate and caring songwriters recording today.” Australia's Rhythms music magazine calls her "a singer-songwriter of compassion and insight" and Ladyslipper describes her as "original, introspective, poetic, articulate, politically conscious and spiritually inspired."

Libby has directed two Ford Foundation grants on Difficult Dialogues, edited books on Alaska Native issues and on conducting difficult dialogues in higher education, and contributed essays, songs and poems to many notable books and publications, including Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril; Prayers for a Thousand Years: Inspiration from Leaders and Visionaries Around the World and Crosscurents North: Alaskans on the Environment. She conducts workshops nationwide on leadership, diversity, living sustainably, songwriting, and more.

Libby has been a national Green Dove Award finalist and an Alaska Woman of Achievement awardee, as well as a board member of Musicians United to Sustain the Earth and a faculty member of the Institute for Deep Ecology. Born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, she graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, and has worked as a TV and print news reporter, radio consultant, nuclear weapons educator, and writer.