Elizabeth grew up in Bangor, Maine. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College.  She attended Harvard Medical School where she was a Gerald Foster Scholar. She received the Dean’s Award for Community Service for her work in Chennai, India establishing a program training orphanage caregivers in the prevention and recognition of newborn illness. She earned a Masters of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she was a Zuckerman Fellow and  participant in the Women and Public Policy Program. As an Americorps Promise Fellow she led a project creating health insurance access for Massachusetts children through the Free and Reduced School Meals Program.  She worked for the Harvard School of Public Health researching health care disparities and for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France comparing health care quality among 21 countries. In 2004, she worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq to advise the Iraqi Ministry of Health, and volunteered at the 31st Combat Support Hospital. She received the Joint Civilian Service Achievement Award from the Department of Defense. She recently worked in Senator Olympia Snowe’s office. Elizabeth is a pediatric intern at Massachusetts General Hospital who will join the Anesthesia Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2010.