作者介紹
作者介紹 Juliette M. Engel: I am a 71 year old retired physician and author. Back in my college days, I was determined to do something brave with my life. I put myself through university and medical school to become an Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Director of Diagnostic Ultrasound at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, Washington. When my two children were in high school and college, I became the first American doctor to fly over the Iron Curtain to Moscow where I visited Soviet maternity hospitals and abortion clinics. I was so appalled by what I saw that I sold my my medical practice in 1990 and founded MiraMed Institute, determined to improve health care and human rights for women and children in the USSR. When the Soviet government collapsed and orphans were dying for lack of antibiotics, I organized "Cruise with a Cause," in which tourists carried one suitcase for themselves and one full of medicines and warm clothing for an orphanage. While providing aid to infant hospitals and orphanages in northern Russia, I uncovered the crime of sexual trafficking in girls and a rage was kindled in me. The girls were defenseless, but I wasn't. I moved to Moscow in 1999 and founded the Angel Coalition to combat human trafficking. The Angel Coalition grew into an underground railroad that assisted thousands of victims. I also co-founded Moscow's municipal orphanage staff training center, Women and Children First, and a nationwide program of community center support for single mothers, the Babushka Brigade. Jill Dougherty of CNN once asked if I was lonely in Russia. I had to laugh. I was never alone. My life was a constant collage of travel and adventure with my cluster of colleagues and friends. I sweated in banyas and jumped into frigid Siberian lakes, traveled by train and bus to small villages on the steppes, and ate blinis with honey in Novgorod and smoked fish on the shores of Lake Onega. I sailed the great Volga River, delivering aid to orphanages and getting to know the kids, watching them grow over the years and trying, often in vain, to keep them safe. I came back to America in 2010 when my protégé was murdered by traffickers and Russian Military Intelligence warned me that I would be next. I am currently living in the Washington DC area and serving on a number of committees including the Presidential Commission "US-Russia Working Group on Civil Society, Corruption, Child Pornography, and Child Trafficking" along with representatives from the National Security Council, State Department, and White House. I am a frequent guest at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2013, I received the University of Washington School of Medicine Humanitarian Award (Interview: https: vimeo.com 67433359). In 2016, the draft manuscript of Angels Over Moscow was awarded the Southern California Writers Award for Best Non-fiction.
