Carter is an author and the executive director of Breaking Free, an organization which helps women seeking to leave prostitution.
[6] She subsequently became the executive director of Breaking Free,[7] and the program expanded to provide additional support services, including emergency assistance such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and legal aid for victims of human trafficking.
[12] Breaking Free is a non-profit organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota with the goal of helping women escape prostitution.
Breaking Free also provides addiction services, permanent and temporary housing, as well as legal assistance and job training.
Carter believes that as long as men continue to purchase sexual favors, sex trafficking will not end.
When I think about the millions of women and children throughout the world who are exploited and have no other options to change the course of their life, I feel compelled to do all that I can do to help them in some way.