Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley
Ava DuVernay, born August 24, 1972, in Long Beach California. Her aunt Denise inspired her love of artistic expression and creative thinking. The aunt worked as an overnight nurse in order to provide her with the opportunity to study art and literature, or even theater. She showed DuVernay the 1961 film West Side Story and DuVernay fell in love with it. DuVernay was able to see through her mother's examples of the power of art as an effective vehicle for social activism. DuVernay had an aunt who was socially conscious and taught her how to utilize the arts as a means of expressing herself. DuVernay was raised in Compton by her parents, however she was able to spend the summers in Lowndes County Alabama. This is where DuVernay's father's family was for many generations. DuVernay's father was able to recall seeing the historic civil right's march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge near the town of Selma Alabama. DuVernay was inspired by the summers she spent in Alabama to inspire her film Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High School at Lakewood, California in 1990. DuVernay attended University of California Los Angeles following her graduation, and received qualifications in English as well as African American Studies. DuVernay began to produce for the broadcast industry while she was in her university. As an intern, she worked for CBS News at the time of the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay recalled being instructed to look at the trash of the home of a juror. The work she was assigned to did not leave her satisfied in journalism, so she decided to shift her focus towards the field of publicity. DuVernay started her first job as a publicist in a small production studio right out of high school. From this position she started her own PR company named The DuVernay Agency in 1999. Additionally, she started a variety of lifestyle and promotion networks such as Urban Beauty Collective. Urban Eye, HelloBeautiful, and Urban Thought Collective. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley's zodiac sign is. She is famous for her role as Anna Payne in American Experience, (1987) A More Perfect Union and A More Perfect Union (2009). Autumn has performed the role Rose of A More Perfect Union and Anna Payne of American Experience.
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