Juanita Tolliver Bio, Age, Husband, Net Worth

Juanita Tolliver is a Black woman with an American personality. She works for MSNBC as a political analyst and an opinion contributor for the news channel TheGrio. She also hosts and contributes to SiriusXM Progress on Sirius XM Radio. Apart from this, she also contributes as an author, host, and opinion writer as well.

Juanita Tolliver Net Worth

Juanita Tolliver has been working as a journalist for more than five years. She is a political analyst, podcast host, and news contributor, and she also works as a T.V. personality, coming on various news shows as a speaker. Apart from this, her first book is set to be released soon in 2025. We can predict Juanita’s net worth as $2 million as of 2024.

Net Worth:	$2 Million
Real Name:	Juanita Tolliver
Birth Date:	June 22, 1985
Age (as of 2024):	39 Years
Birth Place:	Tennessee, USA
Height:	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Husband:	Chris Leist

Early Life

Juanita Tolliver was born on 22nd June 1985, making her 39 years old as of 2024. Juanita was brought up in Tennessee, USA. Juanita attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attained a B.A. Political Science. She then went to pursue her M.A. The Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a graduate of East High School (Memphis, Tennessee).

Career

Before becoming an analyst, opinion writer, and host, Juanita Tolliver was a Director of Campaigns for the Center for American Progress. She led the policy advocacy campaigns and advised the presidential and congressional campaigns.

She worked there for two years, from 2018 to 2020, based in the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. Juanita Tolliver began working as a Political Analyst for MSNBC in 2021. In 2022, she started simultaneously working for SiriusXM and theGrio.

She also hosts the What A Day podcast for Crooked Media. Juanita Tolliver is on the way to releasing her first book, “A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics,” which will be released in February 2025 by Hachette Book Group.

Television

Juanita Tolliver is also known for her appearances on different news channels and their T.V. shows. She has been contributing to different T.V. and news-based series since 2019. The names of such T.V. series are Hardball with Chris Matthews (news talk show;2019; one episode), Way Too Early with Kasie Hunt (2021; one episode), The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross (2021; one episode), Deadline: White House (2020-2021; 3 episodes), MSNBC Reports Yasmin Vossoughian Reports (2021; one episode), MSNBC Reports (2021 – 2023; two episodes), Weekends with Jonathan Capehart (2022 – 2023; two episodes), Symone (2023; one episode), and many others.

Personal Life

Juanita Tolliver is a married woman, and her husband’s name is Chris Leist. Juanita and Chris walked down the aisle in 2019. Chris Leist is working for Mothership Strategies, a digital fundraising agency. He previously worked as a field organizer for Barack Obama’s re-election campaign in 2012.

The pair met while campaigning or working for Martha Coakley’s Campaign. Juanita dated Chris for a while before making her relationship official. The pair exchanged wedding vows on 23rd June 2019. Juanita Tolliver is fond of food and different dishes. In her Instagram bio, she mentions, “Food is my love language….”