Participants of Autonomy and Life came from all walks of life and of all ages. Artists, lawyers, entrepreneurs. Business owners, bankers, teachers. Doctors, executives and students. Some who supported closer to home responsibilities of family and community. They shared a curiosity and drive to delve deeply into understanding the human condition and specifically, to take on their authentic ownership of themselves; to be the real thing; the art of being the free individual in America. That is, the form of the self-possessed enduring public person.