About the Author

RYE BARCOTT is a Marine Corps veteran, social entrepreneur, investor, and New York Times bestselling author of Courage Can Save US. He is co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a cross-partisan organization that fights polarization by supporting principled veteran leadership in public office.

As a college student, Barcott co-founded CFK Africa (formerly Carolina for Kibera), a locally led youth leadership and public health non-governmental organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. After earning master’s degrees from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School, he co-founded and led Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on solar power.

His first book, It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace, juxtaposes humanitarian and military service in Kenya and Iraq. Following its publication, Dartmouth College awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Peace, War, and Defense with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives with his wife and three children in Charlotte, North Carolina.