Candace Owens

At 35 years old, Candace Owens has this physical status:

Candace Amber Owens Farmer (born April 29, 1989) is an American conservative commentator and political activist.

She is known for her anti-Trump activism and her critique of Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Party.

She worked for Turning Point USA, a conservative advocacy group, from 2017 to 2019.

Early life and education

Owens and her siblings were raised in Stamford, Connecticut, by her grandparents from about 11 or 12 years old, after her parents divorced. She is the third of four children. Robert Owens, a Black American, was born in North Carolina, according to her. Owens' grandmother, who is a native of Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, is also of Caribbean descent. She is a graduate of Stamford High School.

Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages from a group of white male classmates in 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in high school. Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and declared them "horrendous." Owens' family went to court in federal court, arguing that the city did not safeguard her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008. She has a TEDx talk to address the subject.

Owens obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Rhode Island. She dropped out after her junior year due to a problem with her student loan.

She worked as an intern for Vogue magazine in New York for a year afterward. Owens began working as an administrative assistant for a private equity firm in Manhattan, New York, and later moved to become its vice president of administration.

Personal life

Owens proposed to George Farmer, an Englishman and former chairman of Turning Point UK, in early 2019, three weeks after they met. She and Farmer married at the Trump Winery in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 31, 2019. In January 2021, Owens gave birth to a boy. In July 2022, she gave birth to their second child, a daughter.

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Early career

Owens was CEO of Degree180, a marketing firm that provided research, production, and planning services in 2015. Owens' website had a blog that often posted anti-conservative and anti-Trump material, as well as ridicule of his penis size. "The bad news is that they will die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get to the urgent social reform that needs to happen immediately," Owens wrote in a 2015 column for the website.

Owens founded SocialAutopsy.com in 2016, a website she claimed would reveal bullies on the internet by tracking their digital footprint. Users will be encouraged to take screenshots of offensive messages and post them on the website, where they will be categorized by user ID. The website was funded with crowdfunding from Kickstarter.

Owens' plan was immediately divisive, sparking suspicion that he was de-anonymizing (doxing) Internet users and in violation of their privacy. "People from both sides of the anti-harassment discussion were quick to criticize the website, labeling it a public shaming list that would encourage doxing and retaliatory harassment," The Daily Dot reports. Both conservatives and liberals who were interested in the Gamergate scandal have slammed the website.

People began posting Owens' personal information online in response. Owens attributed the dox to the Gamergate controversy, with scant evidence. Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich, right-wing political commentators and Trump supporters, earned the trust of conservatives impacted by the Gamergate controversy following this. Owens went from conservative to conservative, saying in 2017 that "I became a conservative overnight." Liberals were actually the bigotes, as I discovered them. Liberals were really trolls... "Social Autopsy is why I'm conservative."

Social Autopsy funding was not available on Kickstarter, and the website was never developed.

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