Camila Reed-Guevara is a rising senior double majoring in Classics and Philosophy . She was awarded a Summer 2018 Conference Grant which she used to attend the Congresso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos . “Philosophy neither rejects nor chooses anyone: it shines for all.” Seneca the Younger I presented my paper titled, “Three Stoic Exemplars: Julia Álvarez’s Mirabal Sisters and Their Place in the Ethical World” at the twenty-second Congresso Internacional de Literatura y Estudios Hispánicos in Granada, Spain this June. This conference is directed by Enrique Herrera, a professor at Lock Haven University, it is bi-annually held in locations in the Hispanic world (Spain, Central, Latin America, and the Caribbean.) I presented on a panel on the subject of female literary figures in Hispanic literature. Two professors from Spanish universities were on the panel with me and I presented second.