Carson Rader (formerly Jill Rader) is an expert on gender, sexuality, and feminist counseling. He has published widely within the field of psychology, in such publications as The Counseling Psychologist, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Women & Therapy, and Contemporary Psychology, as well as a number of textbooks. When he was a graduate student, his article on self-disclosure and the management of queer identities was published as an advocacy piece on the American Psychological Association's website. He also won a Vaid Fellowship for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York and has participated in helping to develop the APA's Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Girls and Women.

He completed his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and his clinical internship at the University of Pennsylvania. He is fully licensed as a psychologist by the State of Texas and he has been seeing clients for the past 10 years. He has further presented workshops at Gender Odyssey and taught college courses in gender, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology, and personality assessment.

He's been an active participant in the emerging and vibrant trans culture, via technology, digital media, and the creative arts. He appeared in Sam Berliner's 2010 film, Genderbusters, and he has created a number of his own short videos on trans experience. He co-founded TransCultureTV, a YouTube community arts project, and he is a regular contributor to the collaborative trans blog, Strangebox (an online exhibit of his photographic work on reflective spaces and trans experience can be found here). He has been a past host on Trannystar Galactica, the largest collaborative transgender channel on YouTube.