A native of the Hudson Valley area in New York, Elizabeth received her B.A. from Connecticut College, with a major in Chemistry and a minor in English. While at Conn, she conducted research with Professor Stanton Ching and completed an honors thesis with Professor Timo V. Ovaska. Elizabeth then went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Yale University under the direction of Professor Scott J. Miller. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, her graduate work was focused on designing and understanding how short peptides can serve as selective catalysts in reactions with pharmaceutically-relevant small molecules. Following graduate school, Elizabeth joined the chemical biology lab of Professor Michelle C. Y. Chang at the University of California, Berkeley as a Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow. In the Chang Lab, Elizabeth developed a strategy to biosynthetically produce analogues of peptide therapeutics. 

Professor Stone returned to Connecticut to begin her independent career at Fairfield University in Fall 2024 where she focuses on teaching, research, and mentorship in the areas of organic chemistry and chemical biology.