Assistant Professor of Critical Race, Science and Technology Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Kriti Sharma is a microbial ecologist and philosopher whose work bridges biology, philosophy and art to re-tell “the story of life” not as struggle and scarcity, but as radical interdependence. How do we shape the world we live in? What does it mean to be good? In this talk, she will discuss how relational ontology reshapes agency as consciousness of and responsibility for the worlds people bring forth collectively. The relational self is both more and less responsible than the atomized self: less responsible (as individuals, and to a lesser extent as collectives) for the worlds we currently inhabit, yet more responsible (as collectives, and to a lesser extent as individuals) for the worlds we bring forth.