Here at OGA, we are committed to amplifying voices that challenge dominant narratives and offer frameworks rooted in relationality, regeneration, and decolonial thinking. One such voice is Simone Grace Seol, a Korean-born researcher, practitioner, and guide whose work invites us to see the world through living, interconnected systems, rather than hierarchies of extraction and separation.
Simone’s perspective is grounded in cosmologies where everything is alive, a view shared by many Indigenous and global majority traditions. She invites us to rethink AI, wealth, and creation not as tools for domination, but as extensions of life itself, integrated within relational, generative practices. This contrasts with Western and extractive frameworks, which often place humans above other life forms and prioritize accumulation over care.
Resonance with fellow BIPOC thinkers
Her approach resonates with the work of thinkers like adrienne maree brown, who explores emergent strategy and social movement ecosystems; Ruha Benjamin, who examines technology, race, and justice; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who emphasizes Indigenous relationality and governance; and Silvia Federici, who unpacks the politics of labor, care, and historical oppression.
A central focus of Simone’s work is reclaiming wealth as stewardship and cultivating collective flourishing. Programs like 7 Figures for Liberation and Ancestral Wealth reframe financial growth as a relational, communal practice, asking participants to integrate ancestral guidance, ethics, and care into the ways they generate and steward resources.
Centering the margins
This work directly addresses critiques of exclusive spaces by centering global majority participants, offering targeted support without excluding others. For more on why centering silenced voices matters, see our OGA article: We’re All Human, and Why That’s Not Enough.
Simone also challenges how we think about technology. She sees AI as part of life’s continuum, not a separate entity, echoing Indigenous and ancestral knowledge systems in which humans, tools, and environments are interdependent. Her approach encourages ethical, generative, and non-extractive innovation, asking how our creations can serve life rather than dominate it.
Our knowledge and solidarity circle
Her work resonates with and complements the ideas of other BIPOC and decolonial thinkers featured on OGA, creating a network of perspectives that center relationality, community care, and ethical stewardship. By sharing and amplifying her insights, OGA seeks to expand the circle of knowledge and solidarity, creating opportunities for engagement, reflection, and action grounded in justice and care.
Simone Grace Seol is an OGA Voice because she embodies our mission: amplifying global majority perspectives, challenging extractive systems, and cultivating relational, generative ways of thinking that honor life, ancestors, and collective flourishing. Her work transforms how we see the world and our role within it, offering tools to reimagine abundance, creativity, and technology beyond colonial frames.
