Sen. Elliot serves as Vice Chair of the Arkansas Senate Education Committee, and is former Co-Chair of the NCSL Education Committee. She is often recognized for her work in support of families, women, and underserved populations, but most often for her work in support of education where she has voiced public support for the integration of the arts across the curriculum. 

In her keynote speech at the 2017 Arts Education Partnership Annual Convening in Washington, DC, she dedicated her remarks to the importance of a quality arts education for every student. 

Sen. Elliott was a key member of the Arkansas team of the State Policy Pilot Program, a three-year initiative based out of Americans for the Arts, aimed at enabling the development of leadership in state-level policy-makers, advocates, researchers, and grantmakers towards developing achievable arts education policy pursuits and sustainable advocacy infrastructures. 

She has played a key role in the support of the new Arkansas statewide arts advocacy organization: Arkansans for the Arts.

As a senator, she has sponsored a Right to Read bill and a bill setting up a commission on creative and sustainability of World Class Public Schools. Both bills included the arts a primary focus and passed both House and Senate.  She is going to lead the charge in assistance with forming the first legislative arts caucus in Arkansas for the 2019 legislative session. 

Senator Elliott is proud to have worked with both Democratic and Republican governors in arts advocacy relating to the creative economy and the empowerment of the arts since she served in the state house of representatives.