Azizi has consulted with President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton on women's roles in helping to rebuild Afghanistan.
[2] For some time, she attended a makeshift school, but conservative religious leaders (the Mujahideen) in the camp declared education to be non-Islamic.
[2] Both her father and mother protested, quoting from the Quran that there was no prohibition against women's education, but they did not make headway against the religious conservatives.
[4] When she returned, she was threatened by the Taliban for her "activism on behalf of women and for editing children's magazines advocating peace.
[2] She "engaged in a non-stop media blitz," talking to CNN, syndicated radio shows, at conferences and universities about the situation Afghan women and girls were facing.
[6] With Vital Voices, she worked in cooperation with the United States Department of Labor and other private corporations to collect and distribute materials for Afghan women students in 2002.