How long did Candace Owens help Charlie Kirk establish TPUSA in their college tours?

1. What the record explicitly says about Owens’ role and timing

Public material in the provided collection identifies Candace Owens as TPUSA’s communications director and shows her touring and speaking with Charlie Kirk on campus events in 2018 (for example the Campus Clash tour and the CU Boulder appearance on Oct. 3, 2018) ^{[1] [2]}. The Wikipedia entry included in the search results reports that she resigned from that communications director role in May 2019 ^[3]. Those two facts together establish that Owens was publicly associated with TPUSA and active on its college-speaking circuit through at least 2018 and that she left the formal communications role by May 2019 ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

2. What the sources do not claim — limits on duration precision

None of the supplied sources give a precise start date for Owens’ work with Charlie Kirk on campus tours nor a single number of months or years that states “she helped establish TPUSA on college tours for X years.” The available reporting documents discrete appearances (notably 2018 events) and lists her title and a resignation date, but it does not enumerate the full span of touring activity or the exact months she first joined Kirk’s campus efforts ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Therefore a definitive “how long” measured in months or years beyond “active through 2018 and resigned May 2019” cannot be extracted from these sources.

3. Context: appearances, touring formats, and TPUSA’s campus strategy

TPUSA’s operating model emphasized campus speaking tours and high-profile speaker events; contemporaneous materials reference multiple tours (Campus Clash, Culture War, Live Free Tour, American Comeback Tour) and repeated pairings of Kirk with other conservative commentators, including Owens on college stops ^{[4] [1] [3] [5]}. The CU Boulder notice specifically tied Kirk and Owens to the Campus Clash tour, indicating joint public touring as part of TPUSA’s campus strategy during 2018 ^{[1] [2]}.

4. Conflicting accounts and post-tenure disputes

Sources also show that Owens’ relationship with TPUSA later became contentious: one entry notes Owens resigned in May 2019 amid controversy, and more recent items document public disputes between Owens and TPUSA leadership after Charlie Kirk’s death in 2025, indicating ongoing fracture and reinterpretations of her past role ^{[3] [6] [7]}. These later disputes do not retroactively establish a precise duration of her campus-tour work but do illustrate that accounts of her role have been politically charged and contested ^{[6] [7]}.

5. How to interpret “helped establish TPUSA in their college tours”

If the question asks whether Owens was a visible, influential presence on TPUSA’s campus-speaking circuit: yes — she was publicly billed alongside Kirk on major campus tours in 2018 and identified as communications director until her May 2019 resignation ^{[1] [2] [3]}. If the question asks for an exact tenure counting months or years during which she “helped establish” the tours, the supplied sources do not provide the start date or a quantified duration and therefore do not support a precise numeric answer beyond “active on tours in 2018 and left TPUSA in May 2019” ^{[1] [2] [3]}.

6. Bottom line for researchers and readers

Available sources confirm Owens was a featured TPUSA campus speaker with Charlie Kirk in 2018 and that she held the title of communications director until resigning in May 2019 ^{[1] [2] [3]}. They do not supply a clear start date or a single stated length of time for how long she “helped establish” TPUSA’s college tours; any precise duration beyond the documented appearances and the 2019 resignation would require additional reporting or primary records not present in this dataset ^{[1] [2] [3]}.