Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steve, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States.
She served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W.
Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.