The program included guests such as Wavy Gravy, Werner Erhard, and Bonnie Raitt. In 1977, Elliot produced programming for experimental two-way, multi-programmed cable station, QUBE alongside former Elektra Records founder, Jac Holzman in Honolulu. Elliot was hired in 1985 as music correspondent on NBC's Today Show. While with the program, she covered the biggest music artists and stories of the decade, including Band Aid, Live Aid, Tina Turner’s ‘80s comeback, and the rise of U2. Elliot appeared as herself in the 1992 TV special of the Zoo TV Tour entitled "Zoo TV Featuring U2", directed by Kevin Godley. Elliot was hired by program director, Jarl Mohn, in 1985 as the network’s first news anchor. While with the network, she anchored part of the Austin, Texas, Farm Aid concert of 1986. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Elliot was aligned with a variety of counterculture and social movements. While roommates with Chicago Seven Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, Elliot opened up the San Francisco office for political satire magazine, "The Realist". While at the magazine, Elliot served as a “realist spy” for magazine founder, Paul Krassner. Among her assignments was going undercover at a Scientology conference under the pseudonym, “Kitty Litter.” Elliot also lived in the 5 acre bohemian community of Druid Heights in Marin County, California with Zen Buddhist teacher Alan Watts and his wife Mary Jane Yates King (known as "Jano"), architect and musician Roger Somers, feminist poet Elsa Gidlow, sex positive feminist, Margo St. James, woodworker Ed Stiles, and ceramicist Marilyn Stiles. With St. James she lived in the house built for poet Gary Snyder. In 2010 Elliot became a board member for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, where her papers are included in their archive of rock history memorabilia. She also sits on the board of directors for Little Kids Rock. In 1975, Elliot trained to become an interviewer of Holocaust survivors for the USC Shoah Foundation : The Institute for Visual History and Education (originally the Steven Spielberg Shoah Visual History Foundation). Elliot has taught continuing education courses on music and pop culture and lectured at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), New York University (NYU), Amherst College, Oregon State University, and Berklee College of Music.