"If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything"
Established in 1999, "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything" is a
service-learning project within the School of Information at the
University of Texas at Austin. The program currently collaborates with
20 tribal schools on or near reservations and one tribal community
library in eight states. For more information about "If I Can Read"
visit our Web site at http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican.
Meet the Team:
Dr. Loriene Roy
Anishinabe, Enrolled: White Earth Reservation
Director, "If I Can Read, I Can Do Anything" and Project
Advisor
Height: 5 feet, 3.5 inches
Superpower: Powerful clenching toes!
Number of children: One
First professional job: Medical radiologic
technologist
Favorite book as a kid: Cider
with Rosie by Laurie
Lee
Kit
2008 Project
Coordinator
Height: 5 feet, 5
inches
Superpower: Ability to eat mass quantities of chocolate
Favorite animal: Orangutang
Weirdest food: I don't eat weird food...I'm a picky eater!
Favorite book as a kid: Anything
Shel Silverstein wrote
Favorite activity: Reading in a hammock on a spring day
Past Team Members:
Deborah
Project Manager
Height: 5 feet 5.75 inches
Superpower: Sleeping
Rain or shine? (Sun)shine and lots of it!
Favorite animal: Frog
Favorite gift: Flowers, any and every kind. They make me
happy!
Favorite Star Wars film: The Empire Strikes Back
Favorite comic book character: Jean
Gray (X-Men)
Favorite book as a kid: Aesop's
Fables by Arnold
Lobel
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Vynarack
Web Designer/Guru
Height: 22 apples high
Superpower: Teleportation
Favorite book as a kid: Its tough to pick one book, but I'll
say The
Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. I also liked the Berenstain Bears and Little Miss
series when I was younger.
Favorite authors as a kid: Beverly Cleary, Judy Blume, and James Howe.
Vanessa
Content Manager
Height: 5 feet 2 inches
Birthplace: Deming,
New Mexico
Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate candy, vanilla ice cream
Favorite book as a kid: Where the Sidewalk
Ends by Shel
Silverstein and The
Lancelot Closes at Five by Marjorie
Weinman Sharmat
Favorite superhero: Batman—he’s just a man who does
extraordinary things.
Favorite cartoon character: Speedy
Gonzales, he’s not mean-spirited, he just wants his cheese!
Snooze button? I set my alarm ahead on purpose so I can hit
the snooze button every morning.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A Librarian!!!!
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Leanna
Content Manager
Height: 5 feet 3 inches
Best quality: Persistence
Role model: My mom and dad
Favorite animal: My Chow Chow puppy,
Licky
Favorite superhero: The
Tick
Favorite book as a kid: From
the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.
Konigsburg
Sweet or salty? Salty
Weirdest food: I love to eat cheeseless pizza! Just pepperonis
and tomato sauce. It’s awesome!
Michelle
Content Manager
Height: 5 feet
Best quality: My incredible wit.
Superpower: Time-traveler
Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate
Favorite animal: Giant Panda Bear
Favorite book as a kid: My Teacher is an
Alien by Bruce
Coville
Weirdest food: Alligator
Snooze button? Three times each morning
Sheila
Mascot
Age: 10 years
Roomates: Dr. Roy, Ray, and Owen
Breed: Australian
Shepherd
Favorite food: Popcorn
Favorite sport: Basketball
Favorite toy: Socks
Cristen
Content Manager
Height: 7 feet 2 inches in stilts
Weirdest food: Chocolate covered ants-yum!
If I could be any animal, I would be: An owl
Favorite cartoon character: Kim
Possible
Favorite color: Green
Favorite superhero: Batgirl, of
course
Favorite book as a kid: Anne
of Green Gables by L.M.
Montgomery
Favorite kids books as an adult: Oh, there are so to choose
from. All of the Harry
Potter books are wonderful. Also, the American
Girls books are great as well. There are too many great books to
choose from.
Maggie
Content Manager
Height: 5 feet 2 inches
Superpower: Human chameleon
Hometown: Santa
Rosa, California (home of Snoopy
cartoonist Charles Schultz)
Favorite toy: Legos
Favorite animal: Hedgehog
Favorite food: Dark chocolate and artichoke
hearts, but not together!
Least favorite food: Eggs
Favorite t.v. channel: The Cartoon Network
Favorite book as a kid: Kristy's
Courage by Babbis Friis and The Night the Bed Fell on My Father
by James
Thurber
Rob
Content Manager
Height:
Superpower:
Favorite book as a kid:
Amy
Graphic Novel Expert
Height:
Superpower: Prehensile [wraps around objects] feet [in other
words, Amy has monkey feet!]
Mode of transportation: Bicycle
Weirdest food: Sushi pizza
Current obsession: Dance
Dance Revolution
Favorite animal: Piglets
Favorite cartoon character: Penny from Inspector
Gadget
Favorite book as a kid: A
Wrinkle in Time by Madelein
L'Engle
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