At the New York Archives, she has been involved in some of the first projects that introduced the MARC AMC format to public record repositories.
For her work in documenting New York Latino communities, she has been honored by the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College.
In an interview with the Women Archivists Roundtable, Roe explains: "All the archival work I do, however intertwined it may be with technology, processes and procedures, is ultimately to bring those voices forward so that they can inform an incredible range of purposes from proving individual rights to molding public policy or providing the evidence for historical interpretation.
She also reviews recent developments, mostly related to automation efforts, that have led to more explicit definitions or data structures and presents issues that must be addressed in order to define a general archival information system standard.
In an interview with the Women Archivists Roundtable of the SAA, Roe elaborates on the relevance of archives:Here are some examples of how we can explain why archives are essential evidence, why they are valuable to our society, and why they deserve support and wide use: Nine miners harbored in a closed shaft after an explosion, and are alive today because the rescuers used archival maps to find that closed shaft; a teacher uses a manumission record as the tangible evidence to help students explore the ideas of slavery and freedom; biologists use historic maps to identify potential sites for reforestation of the American chestnut; a 70 year old woman uses court records to locate her siblings who were adopted out to different families after the death of their parents.