[1] After starting her teaching career in Auckland, she returned to the Cook Islands to work at Nikao Maori School in Rarotonga from 1958 to 1962.
[1] The couple returned to New Zealand in 1973, with Morgan teaching at Naike School for a year before moving to Tokoroa.
[1] In 1988 she became director of the Anau Ako Pasifika project, which specialised in creating resources for learning Pacific languages.
[8] She later wrote a non-fiction work on the experiences of Cook Islands women in New Zealand, titled Cook Islands women pioneers: early experiences in New Zealand = Vainetini kuki airani, which was published in 2001.
[1] Anau Ako Pasifika established the Teupoko'ina Utanga Morgan Memorial Award to encourage the development of Pacific early childhood education services.