Leimert Animation Studio

Hi. My name is Warrior Richardson, the founder of Leimert Animation Studio. As a young man I was torn between my passion for creating art and my commitment to fighting for positive change.  Leimert Animation

Studio is the result of the resolution of this dilema and the amalgamation of those two driving

forces.

I am a graduate of Howard University with a degree in economics and have been an economist

at the United States Agency for International Development, Central Economic Policymaking

office. I created, acquired funding for and operated a nonprofit art program in the Juvenile

Detention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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My past experiences include the following:

​--Founder & Director of Art in Incarcerated Environments in New Orleans, Louisiana

--Newspaper Columnist & Comic Strip Artist for the Louisiana Weekly

--Art Instructor, New Orleans Public Schools

--Economist at the United States Agency for International Development

--Graduate of Howard University, B.A. in economics.

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--Featured in gallery exhibitions such as

     --the Wild About Music Art Gallery in Austin, TX and

     --the Louisiana Music New Orleans Pride music conference and the

     --University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

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--Have been an artist with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

--The Nebraska Urban League and Mcdonalds restaurant are among his clients.

--Created background art for the Nickelodeon movie "Merry Christmas Drake and Josh.".

--Created murals for percent for art projects in Dallas and New Orleans.

--Writer and artist based in Los Angeles, focusing on evangelism and social change based on Christian principals.

--Studied economics at Howard University, and

--has been an economist at the Agency for International Development's central economic anlysis office,

--newspaper columnist and

--freelance artist.