Dawn Gifford Engle | |
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| Born | Dawn Gifford Engle May 22, 1957 |
| Occupation | Executive Director of the PeaceJam Foundation/Director of the Nobel Legacy Film Series |
| Awards |
Documentary Screenplay, Five Continents International Film Festival |
Dawn Engle (born May 22, 1957) is the co-founder and former executive director of the non-profit PeaceJam Foundation.[2]
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.[3][4][5]
Engle is the co-director of multiple documentaries, including PEACEJAM,[6] and co-author of the book, PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace[7] 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 Oscar Arias: Without A Shot Fired, Betty Williams: Contagious Courage, The Dalai Lama: Scientist, and Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free.
- ^ "Harlem International Film Festival » 2016 Awards".
- ^ "About PeaceJam Co-founders" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "Westword Magazine: "Nobel Virtues"". Archived from the original on 2011-02-02. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Westword Magazine: "Give PeaceJam a Chance"". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
- ^ "Colorado PeaceJam founders among 273 candidates for Nobel Peace Prize". The Denver Post.
- ^ IMDB PeaceJam Film
- ^ Google Books Simple Acts of Peace