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Rhythm Fest was a women's music, arts, and politics festival held Labor Day weekend in the South beginning in 1990. Carter was a founding co-producer of the event and served as box office coordinator from 1990 to 1994.

Founded in 1980, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is a national organization that advocates for LGBT equality through lobbying and grassroots organizing. Carter worked for the HRC from April 1992 through November 1995. During this time, she was the Southeast Field Coordinator, the Northern California Coordinator for the HRC Campaign '92, Public Policy Advocate for 10 Southern States Congressional Delegations, and Founder/Coordinator of A National Call to Resist: Countering the Radical Right in Our Black Community, a joint project with the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum. She was also involved in a number of campaigns against specific anti-gay ballot measures, such as Vote No On 1 in Tampa, Fla.

North Carolina Mobilization '96 (NC Mobe) was a political action committee that led a grassroots effort to mobilize North Carolina's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and ally voters, volunteers, and money to defeat Senator Jesse Helms and elect Harvey Gantt. This was the second time Gantt challenged Helms for his seat in the United States Senate. The first time was in 1990, and Carter had led a similar organization, North Carolina Senate Vote '90, to unseat Helms and support Gantt. Carter founded the organization and served as campaign manager, working with NC Mobe for much of 1996.

From May to June 1996, Carter was a consultant to the Office of Lesbian and Gay Outreach of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). In this role, she worked with existing gay and lesbian democratic clubs around the country to organize voter registration drives in their own communities. From 1996 to 2000, Carter served as a North Carolina Member-At-Large of the DNC. During this time she was involved with the Gay and Lesbian Caucus and the Black Caucus. She was also a delegate for Al Gore at the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

Founded in 1988, the National Black Lesbian and Gay Leadership Forum (NBLGLF) worked to empower black lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people by developing their leadership skills, increasing visibility, and bringing communities together. The organization disbanded in 2003. While on staff at the HRC, Carter worked in conjunction with the NBLGLF on joint projects, such as the People of Color Summit and A National Call to Resist: Countering the Radical Right in Our Black Community. Carter also worked as National Field Director of the NBLGLF from March 1997 to March 1998 and as Field Program Consultant from August 1998 to December 1998.