Trish Bowcock

Board President

A native of Atlanta Georgia, Trish is a retired attorney living in Ashland Oregon. She enjoys travel blogging, photography, writing, hiking, reading, yoga and spending time with her husband and fluffy dogs, Ari and Callie.

With more than 40 years of volunteer work, Trish served on her first nonprofit board at the age of 25, working with The Child Assault Prevention Project in Austin, Texas. The group staged small school-based theater projects teaching children about inappropriate behaviors, from bullying to assault, and demonstrating through acting how to respond if aggressions occurred. While in Austin practicing law, Trish also mentored two at risk youth, worked with Travis County Trial Lawyers Association, hosted fundraising events for the ACLU, supported Meals on Wheels, and volunteered on innumerable political campaigns.

Trish moved to Rogue Valley, Oregon in 2001, settling in Jacksonville for 9 years. Stints with the League of Women Voters, Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Jackson County Master Gardener Association, and local political campaigns kept her busy while falling in love with Southern Oregon.

Her family relocated to Portland in 2010 for career opportunities. While in Portland, Trish took classes at NW Film Center, NW Documentary and Metro East Community Media. She produced several short documentary pieces, learned camera and sound work, and donated her talents to producing short pieces for The League of Women Voter Portland and Multnomah County Friends of the Library. Trish also applied her filmmaking talents by mentoring a Lane County high school student in the production of a short movie for her senior project, which included the use of a bus from Lane County Transportation System as a filming site. Trish, a self-proclaimed “rank amateur dabbler in film,” loves the art form and all it brings to communities.

When full retirement became an option, in 2021 Trish and her family returned to the Rogue Valley, settling in Ashland Oregon. She jumped at the opportunity to become a part of Unseen Films Oregon. She says:

 “UFO is a perfect fit. I can contribute my nonprofit talents and educational background to launching a brand-new nonprofit that reflects community justice and equality in an area I love, filmmaking.”