Rye Barcott is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan political nonprofit that fights polarization in Congress with principled veteran leadership. He has built his career in service and entrepreneurship by building bridges across often difficult divides. While in service in the Marines, he co-founded the non-governmental youth leadership and public health organization CFK Africa headquartered in the Kibera informal settlement of Nairobi, Kenya. The memoir he wrote for students, It Happened on the Way to War, juxtaposes military service in the Marine Corps and social entrepreneurship. Dartmouth awarded Barcott an honorary doctorate in humane letters following its release.

After serving in the Marines in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa, Barcott earned his MBA and MPA at Harvard as a Center for Public Leadership Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. Prior to cofounding With Honor with David Gergen, he co-founded and led the solar power investment firm Double Time Capital, and previously served as Special Advisor to the CEO of Duke Energy, where he started and led a clean energy investment team. Barcott serves on the boards of the CFK Africa, the Global War on Terrorism Memorial Foundation, NDI, Veterans Bridge Home, and the U.S. Institute for Peace. He was a YGL class of 2011.