![]() Owens launched in 2016, a website she said would expose bullies on the Internet by tracking their digital footprint. In a 2015 column that Owens wrote for the site, she criticized conservative Republicans, writing about the "bat-shit-crazy antics of the Republican Tea Party," adding, "The good news is, they will eventually die off (peacefully in their sleep, we hope), and then we can get right on with the OBVIOUS social change that needs to happen, IMMEDIATELY." Privacy violation, Gamergate, and political transformation The website included a blog, written by Owens, which frequently posted anti-conservative and anti-Trump content, including mockery of his penis size. In 2015, Owens was CEO of Degree180, a marketing agency that offered consultation, production, and planning services. Early career Degree180 and anti-conservative blog In 2012, Owens took a job as an administrative assistant for a private equity firm in Manhattan, New York, later moving up to become its vice president of administration. Īfterwards, she worked as an intern for Vogue magazine in New York. She dropped out after her junior year because of an issue with her student loan. Owens pursued an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Rhode Island. Owens's family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008. Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and said that they were "horrendous". In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in high school, Owens received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, from a group of white male classmates. She is a graduate of Stamford High School. Owens is also of Caribbean American heritage through her grandmother who is originally from Saint Thomas, U.S. She said her paternal grandfather Robert Owens, a Black American, was born in North Carolina. With her siblings, Owens was raised in Stamford, Connecticut, by her grandparents from around the age of 11 or 12, after her parents divorced.
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