Lea Baroudi is a founding Member and Director of March, a Lebanese non-profit organization that seeks to engender tolerance, foster diversity, and promote freedom of expression in Lebanon. Her efforts to fight for women’s rights have received praise from the March as one of the most successful organizations for advocacy and policy dialogue in the Mediterranean region. A certified professional mediator, Lea Baroudi specializes in inter-faith and sectarian mediation and has initiated and worked actively on peace-building projects that use art, culture and economic development to resolve conflict and counter radicalization among youth in Lebanon. Lea Baroudi is a member of the Mediterranean Women Mediators Network, and of the Global Alliance of Regional Women Mediator Networks. In 2019 she was awarded an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for services to peacebuilding and civic rights in Lebanon. In 2023 she was selected among the 10 finalists of the Global Pluralism Award.