Mercedes Scelba-Shorte
- Actress
- Director
Born to a white mother and an African American father in 1981 in New
Jersey. Her mother Mary Scelba then moved her family to Valencia,
California to get Mercedes out of the dangers she was facing in New
Jersey. Diagnosed with Lupus a year ago, Mercedes has gone from trying
furiously to hide her disease from the world to becoming a National
Spokesperson for the Lupus Foundation of America. She has and will
continue to take the world by storm!