His main philanthropic venture is the restoration of Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park,[2] which has been ravaged by Mozambican Civil War and environmental destruction.
He attended Utah State University as an undergraduate, majoring in history, and received a master's degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School in 1986.
Later that year, inspired by the breakup of AT&T, he and Scott Jones founded Boston Technology,[4] one of the earlier firms to sell voice mail systems to telephone companies.
Through research and teaching, the Carr Center seeks to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy in the United States and throughout the world.
National Geographic Television chronicled the park's restoration in their film Africa's Lost Eden, as well as the CBS News program 60 Minutes [10] on October 26, 2008 and December 4, 2022.
In 2001, he purchased the compound of the Aryan Nations, near Hayden Lake, Idaho after it was seized by court order following a successful lawsuit brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center against the Nazi group.