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.

To date, over one million young people from 40 countries around the world have participated in the year long PeaceJam curricular program.

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.

Engle began her career as an economist, working for the United States Congress in Washington, D.C. for twelve years, first as a research assistant to Senator Robert Griffin, and then as Legislative Assistant to Congressman Jack Kemp and as Legislative Director to Senator Robert Kasten.

[8] In 1991, she co-founded the Colorado Friends of Tibet, and in 1994, she and Suvanjieff began working together to create the PeaceJam program.