Azia Celestino is an award-winning TV personality, journalist, and actor. She anchors entertainment coverage on the West coast for Cheddar News, the leading post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Azia played a pivotal role in the network’s news and business coverage, presenting live daily coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 presidential election, and other major news events around the world.
Witnessing inequities and a lack of representation for Asian Americans early in her career, Azia strives to champion stories for diverse, underrepresented audiences. She established partnerships with Gold House, Netflix, and publicity firms to bring Asian and Pacific Islander (API)-focused entertainment coverage to Cheddar’s audience.
As the creator of TikTok & IGTV series, Keep It Short with Azia, she broke down the biggest news stories in 15-second explainers. The short form series gained over 10 million views in its first season.
Azia served as an anchor for national teen newscast, Channel One News, and has appeared on MTV News, VH1, COMPLEX, Revolt, SAG AFTRA Foundation Conversations, and the BUILD Series. She hosted and helped launch the branded YouTube channel, COMPLEX Hustle, which grew to over 100 thousand organic subscribers in less than a year. In 2018, Azia won a Telly Award for her profile of Nobel Peace Prize recipient and human rights activist, Nadia Murad.
As an actor, Azia guest stars in Apple TV+ comedy, The Afterparty, and regularly appears as herself in Law & Order SVU.
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