Jericho Vincent

Jericho Vincent is the author of Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood and the co-author of Legends of the Talmud. They have lectured on sexual assault, trauma, and Judaism at colleges, organizations, and synagogues across the country. Their writing has appeared in many publications including the New York Times, Salon, the Cut, the Daily Beast, Mask Magazine, the Forward, Mutha Magaine, and the Rumpus. Jericho was a Pforzheimer Fellow at Harvard, where they earned a master’s degree in public policy and trained in Adaptive Leadership. Named to the Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 and the Jewish Daily Forward’s Forward 50, they have organized numerous initiatives advocating for reform in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, including co-producing the nationally-profiled It Gets Besser project. Jericho is currently at work on a book about healing from trauma. (Previously published as Leah.)