Antonia Okafor

1990

2017 – EmPOWERed 2A
2019 – Trigger Warning 2A Podcast

About Antonia Okafor

Antonia Okafor is a Texas-based Second Amendment advocate best known for her work on campus carry and for founding EMPOWERED, a nonprofit that trains young women to use firearms for self-protection on college campuses and supports their advocacy for the right to carry. A graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas with a bachelor’s degree in international political economy, she served as southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus and played a key role in the 2015 passage and implementation of Texas’s campus carry law. EMPOWERED was drawing national coverage as a new women’s gun advocacy group by September 2017.

Okafor became one of the most visible young voices in the gun rights movement. In 2017 she appeared on the “Armed and Fabulous” panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference, wrote a New York Times op-ed on carrying a gun to school, and was named one of Red Alert Politics’ “30 Under 30” young political activists. She has also appeared in an NRA commercial and in a PragerU video viewed more than 10 million times. By 2023 she was working with Gun Owners of America, continuing her focus on reaching young people and women with the self-defense message.

Key Facts

2015: Helps pass Texas’s campus carry law as a Students for Concealed Carry regional director
2017: Speaks on CPAC’s “Armed and Fabulous” panel
2017: Named to Red Alert Politics’ “30 Under 30”
September 2017: EMPOWERED profiled as a new women’s campus carry group
January 2023: Interviewed as a representative of Gun Owners of America

Timeline of key dates for Antonia Okafor

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