Owen is an army brat who moved all over, until her father retired when she was 16 and her family moved to Murfreesboro. Owen got her B.S. in Child Development and Family Studies from MTSU and continued her work in the field of early childhood. Owen began teaching Special Education in 2006 and returned to MTSU to get her certification and teaching license in Special Education. She has been teaching in self contained special education classroom since then. Owen returned to school and graduated with her Masters in Foundations of Behavior Analysis from the University of Cincinnati and is a Board Certified Behavior Analysis (BCBA).