Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley

Ava DuVernay born August 24 72 years old at Long Beach in CA. As a child DuVernay's Aunt Denise encouraged her passion for art and creativity. The aunt she had was a nurse, who worked night shifts so that she could dedicate her time to literature, theatre, and art. DuVernay enjoyed the movie West Side Story, which she showed her. DuVernay was taught by her that art could be an avenue for action. DuVernay's mother also had a an awareness of social issues and showed DuVernay how to convey messages by means of the medium of art. While DuVernay grew up living in Compton with her parents, she spent every summer in Lowndes County Alabama where her parents lived for many generations. Her father was awed by the historic Civil Rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in neighboring Selma Alabama. The summers DuVernay spent there would later inspire her to write a script for a film based on The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his Civil Rights Movement. DuVernay completed Saint Joseph High School at Lakewood in California in the year 1990. After graduation, she studied in the University of California Los Angeles and earned degrees both in English and African American study. When she was in school, DuVernay was interested in creating for broadcast journalism. Her first job was as an intern with CBS News, during the O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being asked check the trash at the home that belonged to a member of jury. In the course of her work she began to feel dissatisfied by journalism, and shifted into the publicity business. DuVernay found a job immediately out college, as a new publicist at a studio. She founded The DuVernay Agency, her company for public relations in 1999. Alongside PR, her agency also created a variety of marketing and lifestyle platforms, such as The Urban Beauty Collective, Urban Thought Collective, Urban Eye and HelloBeautiful. Autumn Riley.............................Autumn Riley was born in Los Angeles United States. Autumn Riley's birth sign is . Her name is associated with a well-known actress who has appeared in American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) as well as other movies. Autumn appeared as Rose in A More Perfect Union, as well as Anna Payne in American Experience.