Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley

Ava DuVernay born August 24, 72 from Long Beach CA. DuVernay received support from her Aunt Denise when she was an infant. Her aunt was an overnight nurse in order to provide her with an opportunity to study and literature, or even theater. DuVernay loved the film West Side Story, which she showed her. DuVernay recognized that art is an effective way to spread social activism. Her mother was also a an awareness of social issues and showed DuVernay to express herself through art. DuVernay was brought up in Compton by her parents, however, she spent her summers in Lowndes County Alabama. This is the place where her father's family has been for generations. DuVernay's father was able to recall seeing the civil rights march of the past across the Edmund Pettus Bridge near the town of Selma Alabama. The summers she spent in Alabama's Selma would influence her later on to create a film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990 DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood California. She went to the University of California Los Angeles to earn degrees in English and African American Studies. DuVernay discovered a passion for journalistic broadcasting while in school. Her first job was working as an assistant at CBS News in the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being assigned to observe the house of a member of the jury as well as go through their garbage. DuVernay was dissatisfied with her journalistic duties and decided to change to the world of public relations. DuVernay was offered a job straight from college, working as a new publicist at a studio. Her first venture was The DuVernay Agency, her public relations firm in 1999. Alongside PR, her agency launched a number of social media and lifestyle networks, including Urban Beauty Collective, the Urban Beauty Collective, Urban Thought Collective, Urban Eye and HelloBeautiful. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. The zodiac sign of Autumn Riley is. The American actress, who is well-known for American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) and A More Perfect Union (2009), was born under the zodiac sign of. Autumn has appeared as Rose, on the screen in A More Perfect Union (2009) as well as Anna Payne, in American Experience (1987).