Career
They have been married since 1980 and have no children. Mavis Leno has been the chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation"s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan since 1997. The organization successfully protested the construction of an oil pipeline through Afghanistan, which could potentially have brought in billions of dollars to the Taliban.
According to Melissa Rossi, Mavis Leno was a driving force in changing the opinion of United States. President Bill Clinton and the executives of the now defunct oil company Unocal Corporation concerning the Taliban, after Leno had shed light on the group"s treatment of women.