Lileana Pearson is a reporter for ABC13, joining the team in February 2023. She spent the last two years reporting and anchoring for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she covered a variety of topics from the early pandemic to Panthers football. Lileana received her undergraduate in media studies at Lindsey Wilson College in her hometown of Columbia, Kentucky before moving on to earn a master's degree in broadcast and digital journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.