Hey everyone, I have a question about networking and being socially

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Hey everyone, I have a question about networking and being socially awkward.

So over 7 years ago, I graduated from a school that specialized in cartooning and comic books. As much as I love comics, I realize now that's it super difficult industry to get into.

A year ago, I was approached by a friend of a friend to storyboard the entire first episode of a cartoon series he was pitching to Nickelodeon.

Now I have never done storyboarding before, but as someone who has drawn cartoons and comics, I was sure I could transfer that ability to storyboarding. So I did tons of research, and ended up drawing over 650 panels for this pilot.

I've ended up growing a love for storyboarding and now want to consider a career in it, but these boards are technically the only storyboard work I've done. I'm wondering if I could find work with these boards alone, of if I need to draw more boards from different stories.

Now, I found out a classmate I graduated with is working as a storyboard artist for Warner Bros Animation. I'm Facebook friends with her, so I've thought about contacting her, but since I've never physically seen her in 7 years, I'm not quite sure how to approach her.

I was going to send her a private message on facebook and just ask her for advice on storyboarding and ask her to review my work, but since we graduated together, it's weird to ask her for "mentorship" I'm also hoping maybe this will lead to her to refer me for a storyboard job at Warner Bros.

How would you approach this situation? What would you do or say?