Anaridis Rodriguez

WPRI.com - Name: Anaridis Rodriguez

Home Town: Providence, RI

What is your favorite movie? The Pianist

List three things you can’t live with out and why?
1. Chap-stick.  Due to the unpredictable weather you can never have enough chap-stick on hand for protection.

2. I-Phone.  As a multi facetted mobile device, it serves as a communication tool that allows me to stay connected with people, provides a resource for tapping into information over the web, and stay in tune with the latest music/entertainment.

3. Maria Shriver’s book “Just who will you be?”  This book serves as a source of inspiration when I feel the need to refresh and refocus my true identity both professionally and personally.

Who is your role model?
Professionally:  Matt Lauer
Personally:  My Grandfather

What is your favorite place in Rhode Island or Southeastern Massachusetts?
Waterplace Park on a summer night when the air of downtown Providence is filled with the rich smells of Water fire.

Name three songs that are in your MP3 player right now?
1.    Cold Play “Violet Hill”
2.    Mana “Labios Compartidos”
3.    Estelle “American Boy”

What TV character are you most like and why?
Grace from the sitcom “Will & Grace”.  I believe her character’s creativity, sense of humor and devout passion for her career reflects a part of me that I can relate to.

As a child what was your nickname?
“Flaca” (Spanish word for skinny)

What is your favorite food?
Nachos smothered in cheese!

Describe yourself in one word.
Animated.

What is the last book you read?
“Slave” by Mende Nazer

Do you have an unusual talent?  What is it?
I do not have a talent that I would qualify as unusual.

What one question would you most like the answer to?
After Sen. Barack Obama’s historic victory was declared in his race for the White House late Tuesday night, he addressed a rally in Grant Park in Chicago, IL.  Within this speech, he drew reference to the extraordinary progress and change this great nation has experienced over the last century.  In concert with two questions put forward by Sen. Obama in his speech, the question that I would most like an answer to would be:

What generational changes and progress will I experience over the course of my lifetime that as a future reporter I will have the honor and duty of chronicling?