Ava DuVernay and Autumn Riley

Ava DuVernay is a Californian born in Long Beach, California on 24 August 1972. DuVernay learned to love art from her grandmother Denise. Her aunt, a night-shift nurse, allowed her to explore art and literature as well as the theater in the daylight. DuVernay was introduced to the 1961 movie West Side Story by her aunt. DuVernay was taught by her mother that the arts can serve to engage people. DuVernay learned to be socially mindful from her mother. DuVernay lived in Compton during the majority of her childhood, but she would spend every summer with her extended family members living in Lowndes County Alabama. Her father was awed by the historic Civil Rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in adjacent Selma Alabama. DuVernay toured Selma in the summer months and was motivated to make a documentary on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1990 DuVernay graduated from Saint Joseph High School in Lakewood California. She went to the University of California Los Angeles to obtain degrees in English in addition to African American Studies. DuVernay began to produce for broadcast journalism while she was still at college. DuVernay was an intern at CBS News at the time of O.J. Simpson trial. DuVernay remembers being asked examine the garbage inside the house of a member of jury. As a result of her work she was dissatisfied with journalism and moved into the public relations industry. DuVernay joined a small studio as a junior publicist shortly after graduating from college. From this position she started her own PR company called The DuVernay Agency in 1999. The agency was the first to launch a variety of promotions and lifestyle channels which include 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, an American actress, who is well-known for American Experience (1987), A More Perfect Union (2009) was born under the zodiac sign of. Autumn played the character of Rose of A More Perfect Union and Anna Payne of American Experience.