Elizabeth Westling is a landscape designer and landscape historian whose training included early modern European history at UCLA and landscape history and design at the Landscape Institute at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.  Ms. Westling’s published work includes the 2013 article, A tree grows in Brookline: a memoir of Longwood and Cottage Farm in the mid-nineteenth century.  As a New Abolitionist Ms. Westling holds that “Whatever our station in life — our race, creed, ethnic origin, sexual identity or orientation — our common humanity binds us together and entitles each of us to a life of dignity and decency, free of compulsion by others or our circumstances.”  Standing together, we, the New Abolitionists, will be, in the words of Frederick Douglass, “freedom’s swift-winged angels” for all the men, women, and children who yet live under the yoke of this newest form of slavery: human trafficking.