Actress-model-cosplayer-neuroscientist-computer informations analyst Valerie Perez transformed into Wonder Woman for the recent New York Comic-Con.

Perez fell in love with Wonder Woman when she was about 7 years old when her single, working mother took her into comic book shop. She saw the George Perez reboot of Wonder Woman. She thought Wonder Woman looked like her mother and it even had her last name on the cover — Perez.

The rest is HERSTORY.

[via Nerdist | Valerie Perez]