Monica Morales Email and Phone Number

You can catch six-time Emmy Award-winner Monica Morales in her “Monica Makes It Happen” franchise, weeknights at 5:55 p.m. on PIX11 News. She also hosts her new TV show, called the “Monica Makes It Happen Show,” which fights for underserved families across the tri-state area, investigates stories that matter, and helps connect resources to communities in need. Every Thursday night, you can catch Morales live at 6:30 p.m. on PIX11’s Facebook page, discussing hot topics with experts and community champions.Morales has been awarded a National Emmy for Breaking News, six local Emmys, and an Edward T. Murrow Award for Investigative Series and Reporting. In 2020, Morales won a Continuing Coverage Emmy for her “Monica Makes It Happen” series and in 2022 was nominated for a Community Service Emmy for her daily coverage of New York City’s housing crisis, food insecurity, and health care inequities. Since 2016, Morales has visited over 200 housing developments and has helped fix hundreds of homes and restore the heat and hot water to more than a hundred buildings.In 2023, Morales received the Zonta Club of New York’s “Distinguished Woman of the Year Award” for advocacy, social justice, and empowering women at their Centennial Celebration, a group active in the United Nations advocating for gender equality and women’s human rights worldwide. In 2022, Morales received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Freedom for her advocacy in immigrant communities. She was also named one of El Diario Nueva York’s 2022 Latina of Distinction for her work in the Hispanic community. Morales’ advocacy work has received dozens of congressional and city awards over the years. Morales was even invited to the White House in 2018. Morales was profiled by the Columbia Journalism Review in 2019 for her special brand of advocacy journalism and she is considered one of the only reporters nationally to focus on public housing in the United States. Morales’ Ted Talk on how “Moms Make It Happen” in 2020, focused on the women in communities who are champions of change. In 2021, Morales authored a chapter in the book the Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty, focusing on her daily strategy in helping countless families get social justice and holding city, state, and federal agencies accountable.Morales has previously worked as an anchor and a reporter at WNBC in New York City, WFXT-FOX25 in Boston, WTVJ-NBC6 in Miami, and WDJT-CBS in Milwaukee.