Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley

Ava DuVernay, born August 24, 1972, raised within Long Beach California. DuVernay was raised by her aunt Denise she urged DuVernay to become creative and attracted by the arts. Her aunt worked the night shift as a nurse to ensure she could pursue her love for theater and art during the day. DuVernay liked the film West Side Story, which she taught her. DuVernay recognized that art is a powerful tool to promote activism. Her mother, too, was conscious of her social status and taught that she could express her thoughts through the art of. DuVernay had her summers spent in Lowndes County Alabama, where the father of DuVernay was born and raised. Her father, who was DuVernay's dad, reminisced historical civil rights marches through the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the close-by city of Selma Alabama. DuVernay's summers spent in Alabama's Selma would inspire her later to produce a film on the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990 DuVernay was a graduate of Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood California. DuVernay enrolled at the University of California Los Angeles after graduating, where she received degrees in English as well as African American Studies. DuVernay started producing to broadcast journalism while she was still in the college. She started as an intern at CBS News, during the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being assigned the responsibility of looking over the house and examining the waste of one of members of the juries. Her disappointment was evident in her journalistic duties and decided to change to the field of public relations. DuVernay was brought in right from college to be a junior publicist at an unassuming studio. In 1999, she established her own firm of public relations dubbed The DuVernay Agency. The agency has launched a wide range different lifestyle and promotional networks such as Urban Beauty Collective and Urban Eye. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley is born with the birth sign of. Autumn Riley is an American actor most well-known for American Experience (1997) and A More Perfect Union (2009). Autumn was the Rose in A More Perfect Union and Anna Payne of American Experience.