[2] She grew up with Tolentino her aunt who often invited nationalists and intellectuals who advocated against what they call "colonial education" into their home.

[4] She later became the first female Dean of the University of Santo Tomas, and established the Instituto de Mujeres (now Rosa Sevilla Memorial School) on July 15, 1900.

[3] During the early years of the American colonial period, she founded the Instituto de Mujeres in Manila at age 21, which became one of the first women's schools in the Philippines.

[3] Later, in her mid-30s, she led a movement in 1916 for Filipino women to secure the right to vote, founding the Liga Nacional de Damas Filipinas.

[1] Sevilla had also worked in the field of journalism, in which she became the editor for Spanish daily La Vanguardia, and established The Woman's Outlook, a magazine published by the General Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines.