Riley Owen graduated from Princeton University in 2023. A Princeton account describes earlier White House policy work on manufacturing, trade and the federal COVID-19 response, as well as shipbuilding experience. He was selected as an Eisenhower Global Scholar to study public policy at Oxford. His campaign identifies housing, paid maternity leave, children's online safety and the Great Salt Lake among his priorities.
A 2018 ballot initiative, a court fight that began in 2022 and a failed repeal drive produced the map Utah votes under on Nov. 3, including a Salt Lake County district that leans Democratic.