Upper Saxony
Roberts was a member of international delegations: the United States Department of Labor delegation to the International Conference on Innovations in Apprenticeship in Paris, the United States delegation to China, 1980 and 2000, sponsored by the American Council of Young Political Leaders, at the behest of the United States State Department—and a school-to-work apprenticeship program in Germany, which she created, in partnership with the state of Upper Saxony. She was a speaker at President Jimmy Carter's re-election kickoff dinner and at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Roberts was president of the National Association of Government Labor Officials and of the National Apprenticeship Program Board. She was profiled in the 1983 book "Images of Oregon Women", by Ellen Nichols. Roberts ran for Oregon Secretary of State in 1992, losing to incumbent Democrat Phil Keisling.