Rye Barcott

Rye Barcott is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan movement that advances principled veteran leadership to fight polarization and disfunction in the U.S. Congress. He has built a career in service and entrepreneurship by building bridges across often difficult divides. Previously, he co-founded the solar power investment firm Double Time Capital and co-founded the youth leadership and public health organization CFK Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. His memoir, It Happened on the Way to War, juxtaposes military service in combat in the Marine Corps with social entrepreneurship. Dartmouth awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters following its publication. Rye earned his BA in Peace, War, and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he delivered the 2018 commencement address, and his MPA and MBA from Harvard, where he was a Center for Public Leadership Social Enterprise Fellow. He serves on the boards of CFK Africa, the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation, NDI, and the U.S. Institute for Peace. Rye was part of the 2009 inaugural class of TED Fellows.