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. In 1986, she was promoted to Kasten's Chief of Staff, becoming the youngest woman ever to serve in that position for a Senator. She also served as an assistant director of the Republican Platform Committee. In 1991, she co-founded the Colorado Friends of Tibet, and in 1994, she and Suvanjieff began working together to create the PeaceJam program. They married in March 2001, with Archbishop
Desmond Tutu presiding over the ceremony. Engle has received dozens of awards, and has been nominated seventeen times for the Nobel Peace Prize. In November 2005, President
Mikhail Gorbachev presented her and Suvanjieff with the
Man of Peace Award for achievement in the field of Peace Education. Since 1996, over one million young people across the globe have participated in the PeaceJam program, creating more than two million projects to improve their communities and the world. In September 2008, The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, and six other Nobel Peace Laureates joined to launch PeaceJam's
One Billion Acts of Peace campaign, calling for one billion acts of service and peace by the year 2019. in January 2015, the campaign received seven Nobel Peace Prize nominations. ==References==