Dawn Gifford Engle

Dawn Engle (born May 22, 1957) is the co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit PeaceJam Foundation. The PeaceJam program was founded in February 1996 by Engle and her husband Ivan Suvanjieff to provide the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates with a programmatic vehicle to use in working together to teach youth the art of peace. To date, 14 Nobel Peace Laureates, serve as members of the PeaceJam Foundation. To date, over one million young people from 40 countries around the world have participated in the year long PeaceJam curricular program. Engle and Suvanjieff have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize seventeen times, and they were leading contenders for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. Engle is the co-director of multiple documentaries, including PEACEJAM, and co-author of the book, PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace that was published by Penguin in 2008. She has also directed the documentary films, Mayan Renaissance, Desmond Tutu: Children of the Light, Adolfo Perez Esquivel: Rivers of Hope, Rigoberta Menchu: Daughter of the Maya, and ()