Elliott is drawn to landscape architecture for its interdisciplinarity and the opportunity to engage countless other areas of study. He excels at working with 3D modeling tools and handmade physical models to perform design studies.

Elliott earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from Pennsylvania State University, where he minored in Art History and earned the 2022 ASLA Student Honor Award. Before starting at MVVA in 2022, Elliott worked as a teaching and research assistant at Penn State.