Three Women One Year
A Public Invitation: Three Women, One Year
A public invitation to Former Vice President Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Mrs. Michelle Obama to consider serving as Founding Public Stewards of Seven Years of Change
Page title: A Public Invitation: Three Women, One Year
URL slug: /women-lead
Site and action are live: July 1, 2026
*Please read first*
This page is a public invitation only.
No person named on this page has agreed to advise, lead, fund, endorse, review, sponsor, or participate in Seven Years of Change. No person named has been contacted privately through this page, and no relationship, endorsement, approval, or commitment is stated or implied.
This invitation is unsolicited. It creates no obligation for any person named and makes no claim on anyone’s answer.
Seven Years of Change is a civic and economic platform in formation. Its legal structure, governance model, and operating documents are still being established. This page is not a solicitation of funds, an offer of employment, a campaign communication, a political endorsement request, or a binding proposal of any kind.
Any account of past events is offered only as the founder’s personal recollection. Where a detail could not be independently verified, it has been kept general, and private individuals connected to those events have intentionally been left unnamed.
Seven Years of Change is not affiliated with any campaign, political committee, public office, foundation, company, organization, or household connected to any person named here.
Please do not contact, pressure, tag, message, or speak on behalf of Seven Years of Change to any person named on this page. If a person named here, or an authorized representative, wishes to respond, the contact path is contact@7yoc.org.
The invitation
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, has reviewed this platform, or knows anything more about Seven Years of Change than what they are reading right now, if they are reading it at all.
I am asking in the open because I believe public asks of this kind should be made in the open.
Here is the invitation:
I am publicly inviting three women, Former Vice President Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Mrs. Michelle Obama, to consider serving for one year as Founding Public Stewards of Seven Years of Change.
This is not a request for money.
This is not a request for political influence.
This is not a request for endorsement by implication.
It is a request for judgment, experience, public trust, moral clarity, and help building a lawful, peaceful, women-led civic and economic platform that ordinary people can use in their own communities.
The invitation is made publicly because the work is public. No private agreement exists, no answer is assumed, and no obligation is created.
The ask is simple:
Help stand up the first year of a platform designed to move families toward stability, communities toward local ownership, and the country from fear toward hope through practical daily action.
Why women lead this
Seven Years of Change is designed to be managed and run by women.
That is not a slogan, and it is not decoration. It is part of the structure of the platform.
Women lead, and men support.
The seven-person neighborhood teams are designed with women as default leads. The design intentionally prioritizes women’s leadership, especially women with credibility in community finance, food, education, care, youth development, family stability, local trust-building, and raising the young.
This is not a symbolic gesture toward fairness. It is a practical judgment about who has actually held communities together when systems have failed them.
Again and again, in every place I have lived, worked, served, taught, and witnessed, women have carried the weight of care, survival, discipline, education, healing, budgeting, feeding, organizing, and rebuilding.
Seven Years of Change is built from that truth.
My own role is builder, witness, and, when necessary, lightning rod. I built the frame. I will stand in front of it and take the heat for it. But I am not the person meant to permanently operate it.
A platform that says women should lead cannot permanently center a man as its operator.
That is the design.
That is on purpose.
Why these three women
I am asking three women who, between them, carry three kinds of public experience this platform needs and does not yet have at the scale it will require:
Public trust.
Experience with power and institutions.
Experience moving resources, attention, and hope toward people and communities too often left behind.
I am not speaking 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 invitation is theirs to weigh or to ignore.
I am asking Former Vice President Kamala Harris because she has governed at the highest levels of this country and knows how public power is held, how institutions work, and how systems can either serve people or fail them. Seven Years of Change is built to name extraction, protect people from harm, and help communities build lawful, practical alternatives. That requires judgment from people who understand power from the inside.
I am asking MacKenzie Scott because she has helped demonstrate that resources can be moved toward communities with trust, restraint, and less self-promotion than the public has come to expect from major philanthropy. Seven Years of Change is not asking her for money. It is asking for the knowledge, judgment, and experience of someone who has already shown that capital and public attention can be routed toward people instead of away from them.
I am asking Mrs. Michelle Obama because her public life has consistently spoken to care, dignity, family, service, discipline, education, and the moral responsibility we have to one another. Seven Years of Change is built on the belief that what lasts is not status, spectacle, or applause. What lasts is what we do for each other.
Together, these three women represent something this platform needs in its first year:
The ability to be heard.
The ability to be trusted.
The ability to help ordinary people believe that a better way of living can be built without violence, without hatred, without waiting for permission, and without pretending the work will be easy.
A word to Mrs. Obama, in particular
I want to tell this carefully, because I do not want to overstate anything.
During the 2006 to 2008 campaign cycle, before President Obama’s presidency, I was around Mrs. Obama on more than one occasion. One of those occasions was an event in San Diego that I helped facilitate.
I do not know whether she remembers it. I do not claim a friendship, a relationship, or any obligation from that moment.
I mention it only because the work being discussed that day involved care for people the system too often forgets. That is the same moral ground Seven Years of Change is trying to stand on now.
Mrs. Obama’s recent public remarks at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center spoke directly to the kind of legacy this platform is trying to build: not legacy as status, wealth, awards, or a name on a building, but legacy as the difference we make in one another’s lives.
Those were her words about that center, that journey, that family, and this country. They were not words about Seven Years of Change, and I do not suggest otherwise.
But they name the same truth this platform is built around:
What lasts is what we do for each other.
Everyone has something to contribute, including, and especially, the people the country has too often told they have nothing to give.
The workers living paycheck to paycheck.
The teachers spending their own money.
The people cooking, cleaning, caring, organizing, driving, fixing, feeding, and carrying their communities without recognition.
Those are the people Seven Years of Change is for.
So this is my hopeful public invitation to Mrs. Obama, made in the open, with no claim on her answer:
Please consider helping stand up Seven Years of Change for one year, alongside two other extraordinary women, as one of its Founding Public Stewards.
Not as a symbol.
Not as a celebrity.
Not as an endorsement.
As a woman whose public voice has already helped millions of people believe that dignity, discipline, care, and hope still matter.
Why one year
I am asking for one year on purpose.
Seven Years of Change is not meant to become permanent in any one set of hands, including mine, and including theirs.
The long-term work belongs to communities. It belongs to neighborhood teams. It belongs to community foundations. It belongs to women and local leaders who know their own streets, families, schools, kitchens, shelters, buses, small businesses, gardens, churches, union halls, veteran circles, youth groups, and block-by-block realities.
The Founding Public Steward year is a launch year. It is the year that helps the platform stand up, become understandable, become safer, become more accountable, and become real enough for ordinary people to use. Then the work passes into the hands of the women and communities designed to carry it forward.
One year is also an honest ask. I am not asking three women with full lives, families, histories, obligations, and enormous demands to give the rest of those lives to this platform. I am asking for one year of judgment, standing, public voice, and disciplined stewardship at the moment the platform most needs help becoming real.
That is a real ask.
It is also a finite one.
I would rather make a real, finite ask than a vague, forever one.
What Seven Years of Change is asking the country to do
Seven Years of Change is a seven-year civic and economic platform for people who are ready to help families get more stable, create useful local work, reduce waste, protect the planet, rebuild trust, and make fairness normal.
It asks people to begin where they are.
Get stable.
Earn.
Build.
Lead.
It asks people to reduce dependence on extractive systems where they can.
It asks people to invest more attention, labor, care, creativity, and resources into their own communities.
It asks people to become greener faster than the national average, not as a lifestyle brand, but as a survival practice and a justice practice.
It asks people to help create practical local systems around food, transportation, housing stability, debt-harm documentation, youth pathways, community safety, repair, recycling, education, elder care, disability inclusion, and local ownership.
It asks people to act peacefully.
It asks people to act lawfully.
It asks people to act intelligently.
It asks people to stop waiting for someone else to save us, while also refusing to give up on one another.
What I am real about
I am not going to sell this as easy. It is not easy. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not worth trusting.
We are at a disadvantage. We are behind in major ways: resources, infrastructure, staffing, legal formation, operating systems, public awareness, and time.
The people with the most to gain from Seven Years of Change often have the least left over to give to it. The people with the most to give often 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. 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 voluntarily accept the invitation, because no one is conscripted into this. Everyone who participates chooses to participate. I built it with the hope that we can bring enough of ourselves together in time to help save ourselves.
I believe people can change.
I believe people can change without being forced through violence or fear.
I believe people can learn new habits of care, repair, discipline, sacrifice, cooperation, and courage.
I have seen it happen. I have had to do it myself. That belief is the foundation of everything here.
What this invitation is not
This invitation is not a claim that Former Vice President Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, or Mrs. Michelle Obama knows about Seven Years of Change.
It is not a claim that any of them has endorsed it.
It is not a claim that any of them has agreed to consider it.
It is not a request for money.
It is not a request for access to private networks.
It is not a request for political influence.
It is not a campaign message.
It is not a request for anyone to pressure, tag, contact, or speak to them on behalf of Seven Years of Change.
It is not a demand.
It is an invitation.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
The invitation, once more, plainly
To Former Vice President Kamala Harris, MacKenzie Scott, and Mrs. Michelle Obama:
This is a public invitation to consider serving for one year as Founding Public Stewards of Seven Years of Change.
I am asking you to help stand up a lawful, peaceful, women-led civic and economic platform designed to help ordinary people stabilize their lives, rebuild trust, create useful local work, reduce waste, protect the planet, strengthen communities, and turn this country’s trajectory from fear toward hope through grounded action in real neighborhoods.
You have not been asked in private through this page.
No agreement exists.
No obligation exists.
No endorsement is implied.
There is only the invitation, the work, and the hope that you might consider saying yes.
If you, or someone authorized to speak for you, wishes to respond, there is a live path and a person on the other end:
I will answer.
Humbly created,
Geoff Barrett
Founder, Seven Years of Change