Farida Azizi

Farida Azizi is an Afghan advocate for peace and women's rights. Azizi has consulted with President George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton on women's roles in helping to rebuild Afghanistan. Azizi is a founding member of the Corporation for Peace and Unity in Afghanistan and is a member of the Afghan Women's Network. She one of the subjects of a play, Seven.

Biography Azizi was born into a wealthy and important family of the Azizi Pashtuns, sub-clan of the Kheshgi tribe. Her father was a doctor in the Afghan army.

After she was unable to complete her education, she married and briefly went back to Kabul. Still living in Pakistan, she would travel from her home base to Afghanistan in order to "support women in rural areas, helping women with health, income-generating, and education programs."

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. In 2013, she was able to travel to Herat and work with women in the Kushk Rabat-e-Sangl district, located in western Afghanistan.

Azizi is the subject of a play, Seven, and her part was written by Ruth Margraff and played by actress Annet Mahendru.