Julienne Obadia is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on personhood to explore how Americans respond to feelings of alienation and possibility generated by four decades of neoliberal promises that happiness is best achieved through individual entrepreneurship, attachment to non-class based forms of identity, and the eschewal of dependence. Her dissertation, Assembling Persons: Entanglement and Fragility in American Individualism, explores living organ donation, polyamory, and intentional community – practices where people are sharing their bodies, bedrooms, and homes in ways that push the limits of possessive individualism with unfamiliar forms of intimacy and entanglement. Starting from the contention that individuals are not born, but made, she examines the kinds of individuals that are generated at the limits of liberalism – and how these robustly individualized, intimate entrepreneurs work through contradictions in personhood, domestic labor, and techniques of social reproduction that inadvertently pave new ground for neoliberal capitalism.