Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley
Ava DuVernay was born on the 24th of August 1972 in Long Beach California. As a child DuVernay's Aunt Denise encouraged her passion for artistic expression and creative thinking. Her aunt was a nurse who stayed overnight so that she could have an opportunity to study and literature, or even theater. DuVernay loved the film West Side Story, which she showed her. DuVernay realized after watching her mother's model of the power of art as an instrument for activism. DuVernay was taught to be socially mindful from her mother. DuVernay had her summers spent in Lowndes County Alabama, where the father of DuVernay was born and was raised. DuVernay's father recalled watching the historic civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the neighboring town of Selma Alabama. DuVernay visited Selma during the summer months and was inspired to create a film about the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay was a graduate of Saint Joseph High School Lakewood California in the year 1990. DuVernay enrolled at the University of California Los Angeles upon graduation. There she earned qualifications in English as well as African American Studies. While she was still a student DuVernay was interested in creating for television journalism. She was an CBS News intern during the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay was told to examine the garbage of the home of a juror. DuVernay was dissatisfied with the journalism assignments she was assigned and chose to switch over to the public relations industry. DuVernay began working in a small studio as a junior publicist shortly after graduating from college. In 1999, she established her own firm that specialized in public relations, The DuVernay Agency. Apart from PR, the agency established several lifestyle platforms such as Urban Beauty Collective, Urban Thought Collective Urban Eye, HelloBeautiful. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Her birth name is . She is famous for her roles in American Experience, (1987) A More Perfect Union and A More Perfect Union (2009). Autumn was in the role as Rose and Anna Payne for A More Perfect Union.
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