Five-time Emmy Award-winner, Ann Curry is the co-anchor of NBC News' "Today," America's number one morning news program. In addition, she regularly substitute anchors for "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" and will report for "Rock Center with Brian Williams."

Curry has distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting frequently traveling to remote areas of the world for under-reported stories. She has traveled three times to Sudan in 2006 and 2007 to report on the violence and ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur and Chad.  While there, she provided in-depth reports and conducted exclusive interviews with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idrsiss Deby. In February 2009, she returned to the Darfur region to continue her reporting and cover the looming arrest of al-Bashir for Crimes against Humanity in Darfur. In October 2010, Curry spent a week traveling through the southern region of Sudan with actor and activist George Clooney to shed light on the tensions building in the country.

Recognizing Ann's achievements as a prominent broadcast journalist and her commitment to global humanitarianism, we will honor her with a 2012 Matrix Award.

Curry has conducted numerous exclusive interviews with world leaders and dignitaries including Dalai Lama, former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Thomas Hamill, who escaped captivity in Iraq and accused spy Wen Ho Lee. She has also repeatedly landed the first exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong after his Tour de France wins.

In the wake of the devastating and destructive natural disasters, Curry has provided on-the-ground coverage of the crises including the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, Haiti's earthquake in January 2010, the earthquake that hit Chile in February 2010 and reported live from Islamabad, Pakistan, covering the flooding devastation in August 2010. She also reported from inside the tsunami zone in Southeast Asia, filing reports for all NBC News and MSNBC programming.

She has covered on the most news breaking events over the past decade including the attacks on September 11 reporting live from ground zero. As the war began, in November 2001 she reported from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea and landed the first exclusive interview with the war's military commander, General Tommy Franks.  She also filed reports from inside Iraq, from Qatar, and Kuwait during the first weeks of the war. In July 2006, Curry reported on the Israel-Lebanon war, and she was one of the only American reporters to file stories on both sides of the conflict from Beruit and Northern Israel. Curry traveled with "Today" to cover the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics in Beijing and Vancouver, respectively. She also traveled to London for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Curry first joined NBC News in August 1990 as a Chicago-based correspondent.  In 1992 she was named anchor of "NBC News at Sunrise."  She later helped launch MSNBC and then became news anchor at "Today" from March 1997 until June 2011 and the anchor of "Dateline NBC" from May 2005 until September 2011. Before coming to NBC, Curry was a reporter for KCBS in Los Angeles.  In 1981, she was a reporter and anchor for KGW, the NBC affiliate in Portland, Oregon.  Curry began her broadcasting career as an intern in 1978 at KTVL, in Medford, Oregon, near her hometown, rising to become that station's first female news reporter. Curry graduated from the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1978.

In addition to the coveted 2012 Matrix Award, Curry has earned five Emmys Awards, four Golden Mikes, several Associated Press Certificates of Excellence, three Gracie Allen Awards, and an award for Excellence in Reporting from the NAACP. In June 2007, Curry was honored with the Simon Wiesenthal Medal of Valor for her extensive reporting in Darfur. She has been awarded by Americares, Save the Children, the Anti-Defamation League as a Woman of Achievement, and the Asian American Journalists Association, receiving its National Journalism Award in 2003. She has also won numerous awards for her charity work, primarily for breast cancer research.