When her father got out of rehab, he regained physical custody of the girls and in 1994 married Jill Rooney, who became Erin's step-mother.

[1][11] In addition to her twin sister Meagan, a mental health worker,[9] Carr has a half-sister named Maddie.

[18] The film depicted the efforts of the Free Network Foundation to provide Occupy Wall Street protestors in Zuccotti Park with Internet connectivity.

The NYPD's treatment of the infrastructure and protesters was highlighted in a story called Who Smashed the Laptops from Occupy Wall Street?

She helped produce UFO sightings in Colorado, Using the Sun to Make Music, The Man Who Hunts Spy Satellites,[22] Save the Last Great Telescope, and The First Animal to Survive in Space.

[24] Carr produced three videos for this series: Shoenice22 Will Eat Anything for Fame, The Story of Karl Welzein, According to @dadboner Creator Mike Burns,[25] and Jerome LOL on Remixing the Internet and the Ageless Beauty of Web 1.0.

[5][19] In April 2015, Carr's first documentary for HBO, Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop premiered at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.

[29][30] Released by HBO in May 2015, Thought Crimes is a documentary film about Gilberto Valle, an ex-New York City Police Officer who was arrested on two counts; one for kidnapping conspiracy and illegally gaining access to a law-enforcement database.

[29] Thought Crimes received positive reviews[31][32] and was a finalist for the 2016 Cinema Eye Honors in the non-fiction film for television category.

[12] In 2019, Carr's two-part HBO documentary I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth Vs. Michelle Carter premiered at SXSW.

[49] Carr directed the limited series, How to Fix a Drug Scandal, that was released on Netflix on April 1, 2020.

[51][52][53] How to Fix a Drug Scandal depicts the role of former Attorney General of Massachusetts Martha Coakley, who was accused of political cover up and of minimizing the length of time Farak was battling drug addictions to cocaine, meth, and other substances: from almost 10 years to only one and a half years.

[6][7] Carr, along with Lena Dunham, was the executive producer of Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste, released on Netflix in November 2022.

[63] All That You Leave Behind started out as a self-published Medium article called Still Rendering that Carr wrote a year after her father's death.