From Survival to Service with Cynthia Ray-De La Vega
Update: 2025-06-25
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In this moving episode of the Freedom Writers Podcast, host Erin Gruwell is joined by Freedom Writer Cynthia Ray-De La Vega. Cynthia courageously shares her extraordinary journey from a childhood marked by instability, food insecurity, and her mother’s untreated mental illness, to finding healing and purpose in Room 203. Her resilience led her to sobriety, academic success, and a master's degree in Social Work. Today, Cynthia passionately serves vulnerable communities as a licensed mental-health professional on Los Angeles’s Skid Row. Her story is an uplifting testament to the transformative power of compassion, second chances, and unwavering hope.
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