Author & Marine Rye Barcott: Universality of Talent (VIDEO)

Watch Rye Barcott at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival spend ’2.5 Minutes With genConnect.’ We connected with the author of It Happened On the Way to War.

Click the play button below to watch genConnect Creative Director Kelly Hayes interview Barcott on his organization Carolina for Kibera, his experience in the U.S. Marines and how integrity is the route to change:

Rye Barcott is the Co-Founder of Carolina for Kibera, an organization aimed at empowering youths and stopping violence. Barcott served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years in Africa, Bosnia and the Horn of Africa. After his service, Barcott earned master’s degrees in business and public administration from Harvard University. He was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and currently works at Duke Energy. Barcott is the author of It Happened On the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace about the founding of Carolina for Kibera.

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