Candace Owens is one of modern American conservatism's most recognized and influential voices. She is a bestselling author, political & cultural commentator, businesswoman, and the co-founder and President of the BLEXIT Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to driving conservative principles into urban minority communities in the United States.

Her New York Times bestselling book Blackout: How Black America can make its second escape from the Democrat Plantation, released in 2020, achieved bestseller status within the first week and sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.

She launched the BLEXIT Foundation in 2018 to bring conservative American values into communities most severely affected by government dependency, particularly inner-city minority neighborhoods. Since then, BLEXIT Foundation has founded over thirty-five state chapters and hosted tens of thousands of minority Americans at events across the United States.

With a combined social media presence of over 11 million followers, hundreds of media interviews, two Congressional committee testimonies, speeches at over 60 American and International Universities as well as speeches at events all across the United States & Europe, she has become known as one of the most strident commentators in the modern political and cultural sphere.

Before her entrepreneurial pursuits, she was the Communications Director for the student advocacy group, Turning Point USA. She worked at a private equity firm in Manhattan, serving as Vice-President of their administration. She attended the University of Rhode Island and took executive training courses at the NYU Stern School of Business.