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
My network of professionals working on countering hate in all its forms grew exponentially after attending Eradicate Hate in 2021. The myriad voices represented at Eradicate Hate, from big tech companies to academic researchers to those with lived experience, reinforced to me the importance of cross-cutting and collaborative approaches to counter hate and its devastating impacts on society. I’ve been fortunate to sustain and build those networks with many of those I met at Eradicate Hate in 2021.
