Aesia Toliver is a 2x Emmy Award Winning Morning and Midday anchor/reporter for WAVY TV 10.
WAVY TV’s morning show was recently awarded the “Best Television Morning Show” in 2023 by the Virginia Association of Broadcasters.
Aesia has reported and guided the community through several major events in Hampton Roads, including two mass shootings, multiple hurricanes, and high-profile murder investigations.
For the past two years, Aesia has combined her journalism skills and love of animals to be the spokesperson for WAVY TV’s Clear the Shelters Campaign, with the goal of getting shelter animals into their forever homes.
Prior to coming to Hampton Roads in 2018, Aesia was a multimedia journalist for 14 News in Evansville, Indiana.
Aesia was born and raised in Palmyra, Virginia and graduated from Ohio University’s E.W Scripps School of Journalism. While at Ohio University, Aesia interned with NBC Universal in New York City in their Diversity Fellowship Program. During her time there, she also reported at the student run WOUB station. When she wasn’t reporting, she was sprinting on the Women’s Track and Field team.
After graduation, Aesia joined the NBC Sport’s crew as a Production Assistant for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Aesia is excited to be back in her home state reporting and looks forward to spending time on the beach.
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