Life Stories #63: Leah Vincent

Leah Vincent grew up in an ultra-Orthodox sect of Judaism that keeps women in strictly regimented subservient roles, impressing upon them from the early age the importance of modesty. Her family essentially wrote her off as a lost cause because she had exchanged letters with a boy, abandoning her at the age of 17 to make her own way in New York City... and she took a deep spiral downward before she was able to pull herself back up, not only putting herself through college but getting into graduate school at Harvard. Cut Me Loose is her story.