Bravo Medical Magnet High School freshman Cynthia Cervantes meets with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) on behalf of the Scleroderma Foundation to ask for her support of federal research efforts into the disease that causes Cynthia’s skin and internal organs to stiffen. The congresswoman first met Cynthia last year when she testified before the Appropriations Health Subcommittee, on which the congresswoman sits, about her experiences coping with scleroderma. The rare autoimmune disease affects about 300,000 Americans.  Cynthia’s father is also pictured.