Dr. Juliette M. Engel, MD
Physician, Radiologist, Humanitarian Activist, and Author
Dr. Juliette M. Engel, MD, is an American physician, radiologist, humanitarian activist, and memoirist whose life’s work has taken her from medicine into the front lines of human trafficking rescue.
In 1999, Dr. Engel moved to Moscow, where she founded the Angel Coalition, an anti-trafficking network that grew into what has been described as an “underground railroad” assisting thousands of victims across Russia and the former Soviet world. Her work exposed the brutal intersection of institutional failure, orphanage vulnerability, organized exploitation, and the urgent need for courageous local rescue networks.
Dr. Engel also co-founded Women and Children First, a municipal orphanage staff training center, and helped build the Babushka Brigade, a nationwide support program for single mothers. Through these efforts, she worked to strengthen families, protect vulnerable children, and confront the systems that allow trafficking to flourish.
She is the author of Angels Over Moscow: Life, Death and Human Trafficking in Russia, a memoir that recounts her years in Russia, the rise of the Angel Coalition, and the dangerous realities of standing against trafficking networks. Her story is one of medicine turned mission, compassion turned action, and moral courage tested in the face of corruption and human suffering.
The Crisis Inside the House
Crisis Inside America begins with Peter Vazquez welcoming Dr. Juliette M. Engel, MD, physician, radiologist, humanitarian activist, and author of Angels Over Moscow, to confront human trafficking, rescue work, and the corruption that preys on the vulnerable. From there, Peter turns the fight ho…