[6] and played popular character Joy Slater in the 1992/3 BBC soap opera "Eldorado" In 1989, she set a legal precedent in the High Court of England against criminal landlord Nicholas van Hoogstraten who harassed her and her fellow tenants in their Rent Act-protected apartment block in West London.

Her real life two-and-a-half year battle against Hoogstraten was subsequently fictionalised by Peter Ransley in the 1989 TV drama Sitting Target (19 March 1989) for BBC 2's Screen Two anthology series, directed by Jenny Wilkes.

Having initially urged BBC Head of Drama Mark Shivas to make the programme (feeling that this optimistic story should inspire as many people as possible[7]), Udwin worked as a script consultant with Ransley, and also starred as harassed tenant Vicki, alongside Jonathan Hyde as evil landlord Vincent Stott.

[14] Leslee was voted by the NY Times the No 2 Most Impactful Woman of 2015 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright) in 2015.

[17][18] Think Equal is based in 14 countries across 5 continents and has been developed by academics such as Sir Ken Robinson, Ashoka and Brookings fellow Dr. Urvashi Sahni, Barbara Isaacs from Montessori UK, and Dr. Marc Brackett and Dr. Robin Stern from the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who evaluate the program's impact.

[19][20][21] Think Equal patrons include Meryl Streep,[22] Lord Rumi Verjee,[23] Sir Ken Robinson, Indrani Goradia, Jack Sim, Joyce Banda, Vicky Colbert, Pratibha Sachdev, Dr Ponatshega Kedikilwe & Dr. Marc Brackett.