title: Mikaya Thurmond
text: # Mikaya Thurmond
  
  Mikaya Thurmond is an American television journalist, who formerly worked as a weekday morning anchor at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina. An Atlanta, Georgia native, she is the daughter of Mike Thurmond and a graduate of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia and of Harvard Extension School. Before joining WRAL, Thurmond was a reporter at WTVC-TV.
  
  On July 25, 2022 she announced her departure from WRAL-TV effective August 12, 2022.
  
  