Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley

Ava DuVernay born August 24 72, at Long Beach in CA. DuVernay was encouraged by her aunt Denise at the age of an infant. Her aunt was a nurse and worked night shifts so that she could devote her day to art literature and theatre. She showed DuVernay the 1961 film West Side Story and DuVernay fell in love with it. DuVernay realized that art could be an effective tool for promoting activism. DuVernay was educated by her mother who was a social sassy and instilled DuVernay to express herself through art. DuVernay was a summer resident of Lowndes County Alabama, where DuVernay's father was born and was raised. DuVernay's father remembered watching the historic Civil Rights marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in adjacent Selma Alabama. DuVernay was inspired by her summers in Alabama to inspire her next film, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay was a graduate of Saint Joseph High School Lakewood California, in 1990. After graduating she attended her first year at the University of California Los Angeles where she received qualifications in English as well as African American studies. When she was in school, DuVernay became interested in producing for television journalism. She worked as a CBS News intern during the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay was assigned to the look-out and search for the house of an individual member of the Jury. The duties she was required to accomplish left her unsatisfied which is why, when she decided not to pursue a career in journalism, she moved on to the field of public relations. DuVernay found a job immediately out college, as a young publicist for a studio. Her first venture was The DuVernay Agency, her public relations firm in 1999. Neben PR, her agency has also launched lifestyle networks as well as advertising campaigns such as The Urban Beauty Collective. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley has the birth star of. The actress is well-known that has been in American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) as well as other movies. Autumn was in the roles of Rose, in A More Perfect Union (2009) and Anna Payne, in American Experience (1987).