Morales has won three Daytime Emmy Awards as part of TODAY's recognition as the best morning news program. She has won two Gracie awards in 2013 for Outstanding Series for Dateline's "My Kid Would Never," and in 2016 for her Today Show series "I am Unbroken." And as part of TODAY's 'Shine a Light' Campaign in 2014, Morales ran in the Boston Marathon and raised over $75,000 for victims of the 2013 bombing.
Morales, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was born in Taiwan and spent much of the first 18 years of her life living overseas in Panama, Brazil and Spain as an Air Force "brat." She graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and Latin American studies and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.