Friends in Los Angeles Dive Into Climate Displacement
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On June 24, 2014, Refugees International introduced its work to a new audience in Los Angeles. The event, hosted by RI Board Member Sam Waterston and his co-star from HBO’s The Newsroom, Thomas Sadoski, was held at the United Talent Agency in Beverly Hills. The evening highlighted RI’s short film Living on the Edge of Disaster: Climate’s Human Cost and featured a presentation and Q & A by RI’s climate displacement expert Alice Thomas.
![Thomas Sadoski, Lisa Guerrero, and Scott Erickson](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-1.jpg)
![RI Board Member Sam Waterson](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-2.jpg)
![RI Climate Displacement Program Manager Alice Thomas](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-3.jpg)
![Thomas Sadoski](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-4.jpg)
![Thomas Sadoski, RI Board Member Tatiana Maxwell, Alice Thomas, RI Board Chair Eileen Shields-West, and Sam Waterston](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-5.jpg)
![Eileen Shields-West and Alexa Stone](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-6.jpg)
![Alice Thomas and Tatiana Maxwell](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-7.jpg)
![Charlie Weirauch, Riley Voelkel, and Guest](https://d3jwam0i5codb7.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/LosAngelesClimateFilm-8.jpg)