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Rye Barcott

Rye Barcott is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rye Barcott rather than just read about it. In short: Rye Barcott (born February 10, 1979) is an American social entrepreneur, investor, author and former U.S. Marine Corps officer.

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Reference excerpt

Rye Barcott (born February 10, 1979) is an American social entrepreneur, investor, author and former U.S. Marine Corps officer. He is the co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization that fights polarization by supporting principled veteran leadership in public office. While serving in the Marine Corps, he co-founded CFK Africa (formerly Carolina for Kibera), a locally led youth leadership and public health organization based in Kibera Nairobi, Kenya. He is the author of It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace (2011) and Courage Can Save US: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future (2026).

Biography

Early life and education He was born to Donna Schwartz-Barcott, an anthropologist and nursing professor at the University of Rhode Island, and Timothy Schwartz-Barcott, a sociologist, author and former Marine Corps captain who served in the Vietnam War survived an enemy gunshot to the face, and earned a Bronze Star with a combat “V” for valor. His father was a former Marine Corps captain who served in the Vietnam War. His parents met while attending graduate school at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Barcott attended East Greenwich High School. He graduated in 2001 Phi Beta Kappa from UNC. He attended UNC on a four-year Marine Corps NROTC scholarship. Barcott graduated in 2009 with an MPA and MBA from Harvard University, where he was a Center for Public Leadership Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and George Leadership Fellow. Harvard University President Drew Faust appointed him to a two-year term on Harvard Endowment's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, and he served as a founding member of the movement to create an MBA Oath. He was elected as a member of Harvard's Alumni Association Board of Directors in 2016.

Career

Military service He served five years on active duty in the Marine Corps, where he attained the rank of captain and deployed to Bosnia, the Horn of Africa, and Iraq. In 2006, he provided written testimony to the Iraq Study Group and authored an article about the Iraqi Military Intelligence Academy in Proceedings, the professional journal of the US Navy. ABC World News with Charles Gibson covered his work in Kibera and his military service in Iraq and named him a Person of the Week and a 2006 Person of the Year.

CFK Africa While an undergraduate at UNC in 2001, Barcott founded Carolina for Kibera (CFK Africa) as a youth leadership and public health non-governmental organization to fight extreme poverty in slums in Kenya with Salim Mohamed and Tabitha Atieno Festo. CFK started as a small inter-ethnic soccer program and medical clinic run out of Festo's ten-by-ten foot shack. It is a major affiliated entity of UNC and partner of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2004, CFK Africa has partnered with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kenya Medical Research Institute. Time and the Gates Foundation recognized CFK Africa as a “Hero of Global Health.” Barcott’s experiences with CFK Africa and his military service are described in his memoir, It Happened on the Way to War.

Business career Barcott and Dan McCready co-founded Double Time Capital in 2013 as an impact investment firm focused on clean energy and sustainability. As of February 2017, "Double Time has financed 36 solar energy projects, which collectively produce roughly 10% of North Carolina's solar power and power around 30,000 homes in the state." At that time, North Carolina was ranked second among US states based on cumulative solar installed capacity. Prior to forming Double Time Capital, Barcott worked as a special advisor to the late CEO and Chairman of Duke Energy, Jim Rogers. Barcott formed and led an investment team for the CEO that focused on renewable energy and disruptive growth opportunities.

With Honor Barcott co-founded With Honor in 2017 with the late bipartisan presidential advisor and Navy veteran David Gergen and entrepreneur and Marine Corps Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran Peter Dixon. The organization works with veterans and national security professionals running for elected office and supports bipartisan cooperation in government. With Honor has worked with members of both major political parties, including through the bipartisan For Country Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as a coalition of senators and governors. Since its founding, the organization has supported the election of more than 100 veterans and national security professionals to public office, including 50 serving in Congress, and has helped advance more than 200 bipartisan laws focused on national security, national service, and [[United States Department of Veterans Affairs |veterans’ affairs]].

Writing and publications Barcott is the author of the memoir It Happened on the Way to War (Bloomsbury Publishing). The book's dedication to CFK Africa cofounders Salim Mohamed, a community organizer, and Tabitha Atieno Festo, a nurse, includes a phrase that captures the central theme of the book: "Talent is universal; opportunity is not. The book explores the intersection of social entrepreneurship and military service. Reader’s Digest named it one of the top four nonfiction books of the year. The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association recognized it as the state’s top nonfiction work in 2011, awarding it the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction. The TED Conference selected it for its annual book club. Following its publication, Dartmouth College awarded Barcott an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. In 2026, he published Courage Can Save US: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future (Bloomsbury Publishing), which profiles American political leaders who served in the military and the FBI—five Democrats and five Republicans—and examines themes of public service and bipartisan governance in a divided era. The book was published to coincide with America’s 250th anniversary, the 25th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, and the 70th anniversary of the publication of John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage. Courage Can Save US appeared on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list for four consecutive weeks, beginning with the June 28, 2026 list, and reached No. 5. It was also the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for the week of June 22, 2026.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rye Barcott

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rye Barcott claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rye Barcott before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rye Barcott ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rye Barcott

In research: Rye Barcott appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rye Barcott in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rye Barcott is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1979 births, 21st-century American businesspeople, American chief executives, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rye Barcott outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Rye Barcott in simple terms?

Rye Barcott (born February 10, 1979) is an American social entrepreneur, investor, author and former U.S. Marine Corps officer.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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