Candace Owens is known as an American conservative commentator and political activist. She is most famous for being a high profile Trump supporter and host of the Candace Owens Show.
Candace Owens was born on April 29, 1989, in Stamford, Connecticut. She attended Stamford High School. When her parents got divorced, Owens went to live with her grandparents.
In 2007, Owens sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court after she received threatening racist phone calls from the 14-year-old son of mayor Dannel Malloy. Owens continued her education at the University of Rhode Island where she pursued her undergraduate degree in journalism but dropped out after her junior year.
In an Instagram post on January 22, 2019, Candace shared a photo of a man named George Farmer with an inscription that read, "I am madly and truly in love with George Farmer". During an interview with Stamford Advocate in July 2016, she revealed that George was a golf player. In another post from February 2019, she posted a picture of her with her lover with a caption that read "Wedding Planning". They eventually got married that year.
Upon leaving college, Owens took a job for Vogue magazine before becoming an administrative assistant for a private equity firm in 2012. She eventually tried to launch her own website to expose bullies online by tracking what they post and storing it under their username. She tried crowdfunding the site on Kickstarter but the website drew criticism from both the left and the right claiming she was de-anonymizing the Internet and violating users' privacy. In 2015, Owens founded the website Degree180 which often posted anti-conservative and anti-Trump articles, some written by Owens herself.
Owens claims Anita Sarkeesian attempted to reach out to her shortly after the GamerGate controversy and when Owens declined her offer she claims she suddenly began getting inundated with trolls and her personal information was released. Owens blamed the far left and GamerGate progressives for spewing the majority of the hate she received and that is when she became a conservative.
Owens turned into a high profile conservative during the 2016 Presidential campaign of Donald Trump. She credited the adjustment in part as a result of the unbalanced media response she saw directed against Donald Trump. She additionally moved her political identification as a result of the response she got from liberals with respect to her "Social Autopsy" work. In spite of the fact that conservatives were initially likewise condemning of the project, a few moderates went to her resistance when Owens affirmed got provocation from liberal activists.
In 2017, she started a YouTube channel called The Red Pill Black. The channel aimed to strengthen the conservative movement among black individuals in the United States. She was chosen as the director of urban advancement of Turning Point USA on November 21, 2017, at a MAGA rally in Rockford, Illinois. Turning Point USA, a non-profit student association that promotes conservatism values and speakers.
Owens currently hosts a YouTube podcast show titled The Candace Owens Show. Owens is additionally the organizer of a political project named "Blexit," that, among different objectives, looks to urge African Americans to reconsider their political inclination for the Democratic Party. She is currently seen frequently speaking at events and appearing in interviews as a conservative commentator.
| Birth Date: | 29 Apr, 1989 |
| Age: | 31 yrs |
| Occupations: | Political activist YouTuber |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Stamford |
| residence: | New York City |
| Education: | University of Rhode Island |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American far-right activist and public speaker |
| Net Worth 2021: | 1 million |
