[7] The branch disbanded in 2013, but as of February 2021 Talbot Ross was working with other area leaders to reinstate the chapter.

[8] She also helped direct the Maine Freedom Trails project, the first part of which opened in 2006,[9][10] and co-founded the Martin Luther King Jr. Fellows program with Portland city councilor Pious Ali, a youth-led racial justice program for high school students of color in Portland.

[11][2] Talbot Ross considers herself a prison abolitionist and has advocated for incarcerated individuals in Maine over the course of fifteen years.

[13] In 2018, Talbot Ross was challenged in the House District 40 Democratic primary by former state representative Herb Adams,[4] but defeated him 75%-25%.

[15] The 130th Maine legislature took up a bill proposed by Talbot Ross, "LD #2: An Act To Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process," early in the regular session.

[19] In February 2023, United States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris honored Black State House speakers Chris Welch, Adrienne A. Jones, Joe Tate, Carl Heastie, and Talbot-Ross at a Black History Month ceremony at the White House.