Three Women One Year
Improved Aug. 3, 2026
A Public Invitation: Three Women, One Year & 3 Women, Second and Third Years
THE WOMEN WHO SHOULD LEAD THIS
A public invitation, in the founder's voice
I want to say at the top what this page is, so no one has to wonder. This is a public invitation. It is not a private arrangement. It is not a back channel. It is not a claim that anyone named here has said yes, has been asked in private, or knows more about this than what she is reading right now, if she is reading it at all.
I am making this request openly, as all such questions should be asked. Everything Seven Years of Change does is transparent, and this is no exception.
Here is the invitation. I am asking three women to lead this platform as co-CEOs: Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Michelle Obama. I am asking for one year.
These are public invitations to consider proposed governing roles. They are not job advertisements, employment offers, or promises of compensation. Before any role becomes formal or compensated, its legal structure and eligibility requirements will receive appropriate review under the law applicable to the entity and jurisdiction.
Let me tell you why it is women, why it is these three, why one year, what comes after their year, and why I believe this could help change the trajectory of this country from fear toward hope.
Why women lead this
Seven Years of Change places women in the proposed platform-wide governing structure. That is not decoration. It is a design choice about who protects the shared rules governing ownership, transfer, safety, accountability, Green limits, founder limits, and the platform’s final exit. Local teams govern their own work. Employment, training, contracting, services, housing, transportation, and community ownership are not reserved by sex.
This is not a gesture toward fairness. It is a judgment about who has actually held communities together when systems have failed them. The answer, over and over, in every place I have lived, worked, and witnessed, is women.
My own role in this is builder, lightning rod, and witness. It is not operator. I am not the one who runs this. I built the frame, and I will stand in front of it and take the heat for it, and then I get out of the way of the women who run it. That is the design. That is on purpose.
A platform that says women should lead and then keeps a man in the operator’s chair is lying, and I am not interested in lying.
Why these three
I am asking three women who, between them, hold the three things this platform needs and does not yet have at the scale it will need them: public trust, real capital, and the moral standing to make a hopeful ask and have the country actually hear it.
I am not going to speak for any of them. They speak for themselves, and they always have. I will only say why I believe each of them is suited to the work, and then the ask is theirs to weigh.
I am asking a woman who has governed at the highest levels of this country and knows exactly how power is held and how it is abused, because the platform is built to name extraction and stand against it, and that takes someone who has seen the machine from inside.
I am asking a woman who has moved more money toward ordinary communities, more directly and with less self-promotion, than almost anyone alive, because the platform is built on the belief that capital can be routed toward people instead of away from them. She has already proven it can be done.
And I am asking a woman whose own words, standing at the opening of a center carrying her family’s name, said the thing this whole platform is built on better than I ever have.
A word to Mrs. Obama, in particular
I am going to tell a story here, and I am telling it plainly, because I would rather be honest than impressive.
I was around Mrs. Obama on a couple of occasions sometime during the 2006 to 2008 campaign cycle, before her husband’s presidency. One of those occasions was an event in San Diego that I helped facilitate. I introduced her that day to a woman who at the time led the medical school at UC San Diego, a physician who had spent her career building care for people the system had given up on.
I include that memory not to claim a friendship I do not have the standing to claim, and not because any of it obligates her to anything. I include it because she may remember it. After all, it is true, and because the work she was paying attention to that day—care built for the people the system forgets—is the same work this platform is built to do.
At the June 18, 2026 opening of the Obama Presidential Center, Mrs. Obama said that “a lasting legacy isn’t an award or name on a building or number of zeros in a bank account.” She explained that legacy lives in the difference people make in one another’s lives: seeing each other, showing up, and carrying one another when faith or strength begins to fail.
That is the platform. She said it about a building, a marriage, a community, and a country—not about Seven Years of Change—and I am not pretending otherwise. But she said the exact thing this is built on. What lasts is what we do for each other.
Everyone has something to contribute, including—and especially—the people the country has told they have nothing to give: workers living paycheck to paycheck, teachers spending their own money, and people sweating over stoves to feed their neighbors. Those are the people this platform is for.
So this is my hopeful suggestion to her, made in the open, with no claim on her answer: Join this for one year. Stand it up alongside two other extraordinary women. Help turn the country’s trajectory from fear toward hope, not with a speech, but with grounded action that ordinary people can step into in their own neighborhoods.
One year. Then it belongs to the women who come after.
Why one year
I am asking for one year on purpose. This whole platform is built with an intentional shelf life. It is not meant to become permanent in any one set of hands, including mine and including theirs.
The real long-term work belongs to community foundations and to the women on the neighborhood teams who lead it day to day. The co-CEO year is a launch year. It is the year that gets the thing off the ground, protects its purpose, gives the country a reason to pay attention, and helps prove that it can stand. Then leadership passes, the way it is supposed to pass.
One year is also an honest ask. I am not asking three women with full lives and enormous demands to give the rest of those lives to this. I am asking for one year of their standing, their judgment, and their public voice at the moment the platform most needs it.
That is a real ask and a finite one, and I would rather make a real, finite ask than a vague forever one.
The first three launch it. The women who follow them grow it. The final three complete the transfer and close the temporary platform on schedule.
The second three: two years to grow it
The first three are being asked to serve for one year because their work is to launch the platform, establish its public credibility, protect its purpose, and help the country see that ordinary people can begin.
The second three are being asked for two years because growing something responsibly is different from launching it.
I am publicly asking Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey to consider serving as the next three co-CEOs of Seven Years of Change after the first three complete their term. Under the present seven-year sequence, their term would be 2028 and 2029.
This is not an alternate list in case the first three decline. Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey are not substitutes for Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Michelle Obama. They are the intended second three in the succession design.
This is also a public invitation. It is not a claim that any of these women has been contacted privately, knows about the invitation, has expressed interest, or has agreed to serve. I am naming them openly because leadership succession should not be concealed until the moment power changes hands.
Why Katie Porter
I am asking Katie Porter because this platform must be able to place complicated financial systems in front of ordinary people and explain, plainly, who benefits, who pays, where the money goes, and where extraction hides.
Her work in consumer law, bankruptcy, financial oversight, and public accountability reflects the discipline this platform needs. The community shares, capped returns, lending ideas, household-cost claims, ownership structures, and public records should be able to withstand the whiteboard test: Where did the money begin? Where did it move? Who gained? Who carried the risk? What remained with the community?
I am not asking her to make the blueprint less ambitious. I am asking her to help make it harder to misuse.
Why Eva Longoria
I am asking Eva Longoria because this platform must reach families and communities that America repeatedly describes but too rarely gives governing power, capital, ownership, and cultural authority.
Her public work connects economic opportunity, civic participation, cultural influence, women’s advancement, entrepreneurship, and the strength of Latino communities. Seven Years of Change needs someone who understands that representation is not simply about who appears on a screen. It is also about who owns businesses, whose work is recognized, whose stories shape public understanding, and whose children can see a future that includes them.
Culture is part of infrastructure. People will not protect, join, or carry forward something in which they cannot see themselves.
Why Oprah Winfrey
I am asking Oprah Winfrey because this platform must be able to speak across differences without pretending those differences do not exist.
Her public and charitable work has connected education, women, children, families, healing, food, shelter, community responsibility, and the belief that where a person begins does not have to determine where that person ends.
That belief belongs inside the repeating movement of Seven Years of Change: learn, serve, earn, own, and teach the next person.
I am not asking for celebrity placed above the work. I am asking for a communicator, convener, institution builder, and woman whose voice can help ordinary people recognize that they are not merely recipients of change. They carry knowledge, relationships, labor, care, imagination, and the ability to build something that can remain after the temporary platform is gone.
Why the second three receive two years
The launch year establishes the public promise. The following two years must turn that promise into a disciplined pattern that communities can examine and, where they choose, adapt for themselves.
The second three would have time to help test whether the public language matches what communities actually experience; strengthen the financial, environmental, and accountability structures; connect local teams with knowledge, relationships, institutions, facilities, and lawful capital pathways; make the work understandable across race, class, geography, age, political identity, and educational background; protect women-led governance without turning national leadership into ownership of local work; identify where the blueprint is failing or being misused; and prepare the knowledge, records, relationships, and protections the final three will need.
Two years is long enough to grow and correct the structure. It is short enough to prevent the position from becoming permanent property.
Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey would not be asked to own communities, command neighborhood teams, replace local women, or turn the blueprint into an institution centered on themselves. They would be asked to help the Mycelium Network move what is useful—knowledge, capital pathways, public attention, expertise, relationships, facilities, and hard-earned lessons—to the places where local people have chosen to build.
Then they pass it forward.
To Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey: this is my public invitation to consider becoming the second group of co-CEOs for two years, from 2028 through 2029. Help grow what the first three launch, strengthen what proves useful, correct what does not, and prepare the work to pass into its final three-year transfer and sunset.
The full succession mathematics
The platform lasts seven calendar years, from January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2032. The sequence is intentional:
2026 The founder’s building, publishing, and public-invitation year. I publish the blueprint, explain the mechanism, accept criticism, make the public ask, protect the purpose, and serve as the lightning rod. At the same time, the women who may carry the governing work have the opportunity to examine it.
2027 The first three serve for one year. Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Michelle Obama are being asked to launch it, establish its public standing, and help move the country from hearing about the possibility to seeing whether people will act on it.
2028–2029 The second three serve for two years. Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey are being asked to grow it, question it, strengthen it, widen its relationships, and prepare the full transfer of authority and knowledge.
2030–2032 The final three serve for three years. They will help complete the transfer, remove dependence on the temporary platform, protect what communities independently own, and close the coordinating structure by December 31, 2032.
I have an idea about who those final three women should be, but I am not naming them in this invitation. Their names should enter the document with the same care, honesty, and full explanation being given to the first six.
The first three launch it: one year.
The second three grow it: two years.
The final three transfer it and close it: three years.
Then the platform ends. What communities have built, learned, repaired, earned, and come to own remains with them.
What is hardest to accept
I am not going to sell this as easy, because it is not easy, and anyone who tells you otherwise is not worth trusting.
This is hard work. We are at a disadvantage. We are behind in major ways—on resources, on infrastructure, and on the time we have to do this before the habits of not building harden into permanence.
The people with the most to gain from this have the least left over to give to it, and the people with the most to give have the most reasons to look away. I know all of that. I have written it down so no one can say I hid it.
I built this anyway for those you love and those I love
I built it with optimism for all of us, including the people I am asking to change. I built it with love for the people who volunteer to accept it, because no one is conscripted into this; everyone who is here chose to be.
And I built it with the hope that we can bring it together in time to save ourselves. I still believe people can change. I believe they can change without being made to change through violence or fear. I have seen it happen in front of me, in people no one expected it from.
That belief is the foundation under everything here.
The invitation, once more, plainly
To Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Michelle Obama: this is a public invitation to lead Seven Years of Change as co-CEOs for one year, during 2027—to stand up a platform built and run by women and to help turn this country’s trajectory from fear toward hope through grounded action in real neighborhoods.
You have not been asked in private. You are being asked here, in the open, in the same place everyone else can see the ask. There is no obligation in it and no claim on your answer. There is only the invitation, the work, and the hope that you might say yes.
To Katie Porter, Eva Longoria, and Oprah Winfrey: this is a public invitation to take the next two-year term, during 2028 and 2029, after the first three complete their year. Help the platform grow without letting it become permanent, centralized, extractive, or dependent on any one person.
You also have not been asked in private. Nothing here claims your knowledge, agreement, endorsement, or acceptance. The invitation is public because the succession should be public.
If any of the women named here, or someone who speaks for her, wishes to reach me, there is a live path and a person on the other end: connect@sevenyearsofchange.org. I will answer.
And if you are a woman wondering whether any of this is for you: Women Lead was written to you directly, including the part that begins "To the woman reading this." Most women will lead exactly where they already live. Every one of those seats is real.
What now?
If you need help right now — Start Here
If you want to build something where you live — The Work
If you are still deciding whether to believe any of this — Integrity Statement