Trish Adlesic
Director and Producer
2021, 2022
A Pittsburgh native, Trish Adlesic is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning documentary producer/director. She teamed with director Josh Fox and HBO to produce Gasland and Gasland Part II. Adlesic also directed and produced I Am Evidence, along with Mariska Hargitay from Law & Order: SVU, about the alarming number of untested sexual assault kits in America. I Am Evidence received two Emmy nominations and won the Emmy Award for best documentary. The film was also awarded the prestigious DuPont Columbia prize, was a Peabody finalist, was awarded a Primetime Emmy Honors award and received the Silver Gavel award for excellence in journalism from the American Bar Association.
Adlesic has over 20 years of experience working in narrative filmmaking with such notable directors as James L. Brooks, As Good as It Gets, Michael Mann, The Insider, Sidney Lumet, Night Falls on Manhattan, Gus Van Sant, Finding Forrester, and Jim Sheridan, In America, Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Adlesic worked on the hit TV show Law & Order: SVU for 14 seasons.
At the Summit
The Summit was more than empty words – it made clear that a solution-driven approach is the only way to fight hate. That’s why the working group activities, which are results driven are going to be critical in defeating violent extremism. The Summit brought together the best minds in government, private sector, academia, and civil society. Being surrounded by these experts sparked new ideas – some of which I’ve already implemented or have written about.
