Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley
Ava DuVernay is a Californian born in Long Beach, California on 24 August 1972. As a child DuVernay's Aunt Denise was a great influence on her enthusiasm for the arts and her creative side. The aunt worked as an overnight nursing assistant in order to provide her with an opportunity to study theatre or literature. DuVernay enjoyed the movie West Side Story, which she introduced to her. DuVernay discovered through experience that art can be a powerful instrument to engage in social activism. Her mother was also a the social sensitivity and taught DuVernay how to communicate through artwork. DuVernay, who grew up with her family in Compton and spent her summers in Lowndes County Alabama in the residence of her father's parents. The father of DuVernay's remembered watching the Civil Rights movement's historic march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in neighboring Selma Alabama. DuVernay was inspired by the summers she spent in Selma to later direct a documentary about the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay was a graduate of Saint Joseph High School Lakewood California, in 1990. DuVernay went to the University of California Los Angeles following her graduation, and was awarded diplomas in English as well as African American Studies. DuVernay was a student at the college at the time she began to become fascinated by the production aspect of television journalism. As an intern, she worked for CBS News at the time of O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being assigned to observe the house of one of the members of the jury as well as look through their trash. Her tasks left her disappointed in journalism, so she decided to shift her focus towards the field of publicity. DuVernay found a job immediately after college as a publicist in the young age of a studio. From this position she started her own company for public relations called The DuVernay Agency in 1999. She also started several lifestyles and promotional networks, including Urban Beauty Collective. Urban Eye, HelloBeautiful, and Urban Thought Collective. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley's birth sign is . The American actress and popularly recognized for her role in American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) and A More Perfect Union (2009), was born under the zodiac sign of. Autumn has played the roles of Rose as well as Anna Payne for A More Perfect Union.
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