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Inocente Izucar is a notable Mexican painter, artist and philanthropist based out of San Diego as a granted permanent resident. She became an inspiring painting artist at the age of fifteen that helped her to escape from a rough childhood with a life as an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its extraordinary sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past – – a past punctuated by a father deported for domestic abuse, an alcoholic and defeated mother of four who once took her daughter by the hand to jump off a bridge together, an endless shuffle year after year through the city’s overcrowded homeless shelters and the constant threat of deportation.

Her life story turned into a subject of an Academy Award-Winning documentary Inocente produced by Sean Fine & Andrea Fine in 2012 about her fierce determination to never surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. The film is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children.

She has been an active philanthropist speaking at multiple events and schools across the nation such at Women in the World Summit in New York City.