In response to Owens’s experience in high school, she decided to launch an anti-cyberbullying website - essentially a searchable database of offensive speech found on social media. It ate me alive because I felt there was permanence in what was said about me.” That situation in high school would be the pinnacle of my life,” she said. I would say I’m black, I’m a woman, I can’t do anything and it’s all your fault. “If I was a leftist or if I was a true Democrat, I would relish in victimhood. Owens’s family sued the Stamford Board of Education for failing to protect her and won a $37,500 settlement. Police and FBI investigated the incident and one seventeen-year-old boy, who Owens says was a friend of hers, was arrested. The NAACP held press conferences with Owens. Owens told the principal and the story spread quickly to state and national media, especially when Malloy acknowledged that his son was in the car. “They warned me that if they found me at home, they were going to unload a bullet into the back of my head.”

“They started off by telling me that they were going to kill me ‘just because’ I was black,” Owens wrote in a 2016 op-ed published in Hearst Connecticut Media. The voicemails left on Owens’s phone by four boys in a car altered her life, Owens says. Two years ago, Owens wouldn’t even have called herself a conservative.

The incident set off a chain of events that, she said, eventually sparked her political ideology. In 2007, Owens, a senior at Stamford High School, made headlines for a very different reason: she was the victim of an alleged racial hate crime, which, peripherally, involved the son of Democrat Gov.

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