Natalie MoralesSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

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She graduated in 1990 from Caesar Rodney High School located in Camden, Delaware.[4][5] Morales holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University with dual majors in journalism and Latin American studies.[6] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude.[7] Career Following college, Morales worked at Chase Bank before pursuing her journalism career.[8] She began her on-air career at News 12 – The Bronx as the first morning anchor under News 12 - The Bronx’s first News Director Roberto Soto and original Studio Directors Tom D’Elia, Brian Webb, Darryl Stith, and David Rein.

She also served as a camera operator, editor and producer for that network. Morales went on to serve as a weekend anchor/reporter and morning co-anchor at WVIT-TV in Hartford, Connecticut, where she reported on the Columbine shootings, Hurricane Floyd, the 2000 Presidential election and the September 11, 2001 attacks.

She also co-hosted and reported for the Emmy-nominated documentary, Save Our Sound, a joint production with WNBC on preserving the Long Island Sound. In 1999, she was voted one of the 50 Most Influential Latinas for her news coverage and reports by the Hispanic daily newspaper El Diario La Prensa.

Previously, Morales spent two years working behind the scenes at Court TV. Morales was an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC from 2002 to 2006.

She covered a number of major news stories there including the 2004 Presidential election, the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, the Iraqi prisoner abuse, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Northeast Blackout of 2003, the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks and the investigation and trial of Scott Peterson.

Additionally, she was named one of Hispanic Magazine’s Top Trendsetters of 2003.

Morales joined the Today show in 2006 as a national correspondent,[9] and was named co-anchor of the third hour of the show in March 2008.[6][10] On May 9, 2011, it was announced that Morales would replace Ann Curry as the news anchor for Today, when Curry succeeded Meredith Vieira as host of Today in June 2011.

In 2016 it was announced that Morales would be moving west to host Access and become the Today Show West Anchor.[11]