Concepción Felix Roque was born on 9 February 1884 in 

Tondo, Manila Philippines, to Juana

Roque and Mauricio Felix. At age six, she began her schooling in a private institution run by
Margarita Lopez. In 1893 she transferred to the newly opened Assumption Convent. Finishing her
primary education, Felix attended the Instituto de Mujeres, (Women's Institute), earning her teaching
degree. She continued her studies while teaching math classes, earning her bachelor's degree in
1904. She went on to study law at the Escuela de Derecho (School of Rights) in Manila. The school
had been founded by Felipe Gonzalez Calderon Roca who drafted the Malolos Constitution and
who had been acting as a private tutor to Felix. She was one of the first four women admitted to the
law school and became one of the first women admitted to the bar association.

In 1905, Felix founded the Asociación Feminista Filipina (Feminist Association of the Philippines) as

a volunteer social reform group aimed at acquiring prison and labor reform for women and children.
Like many of the19-century purity organization, it sponsored drives against drinking, gambling, and
prostitution and implemented moral campaigns in schools and factories [7] with lectures on hygiene,
health, and infant care. It also campaigned for inclusion of women on local boards of education and
municipal committees, though at this early stage, Felix was not demanding suffrage. Recognizing
that women did not have a legal identity, Felix gained the backing of a group of male doctors who
incorporated one of the first non-profit organizations in the country, La Protección de la Infancia,
Inc. Through the organization in 1907, Felix founded La Gota de Leche, the first organization aimed
solely at the welfare of mothers and children. Felix's idea was to establish a small maternity ward to
train nurses and distribute sterile milk to sickly and malnourished infants. By 1909, the organization
was so successful that it had to obtain a larger space and Felix spearheaded a successful drive to
raise funds to purchase sterilizing equipment for the newly donated facility.