Five-time Emmy® Award-winner and New York Times bestselling author
Sunny Hostin has been a co-host of ABC’s “The View” since 2016.
Sunny previously served as a host and legal analyst at CNN, as well as
a fill-in co-anchor for ABC News’ “World News Now” and
“America This Morning.” In May 2021, Hostin released her debut
novel, “Summer on the Bluffs” (William Morrow), which skyrocketed
to No. 11 on The New York Times Bestsellers list. The success of this
book led to the continuation of her summer trilogy with the release of
“Summer on Sag Harbor” on May 2, 2023, which also became an
instant New York Times bestseller. The series was completed with the
release of “Summer on Highland Beach” in the summer of 2024. In
the fall of 2020, Hostin released her memoir, “I Am These Truths: A
Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds,” with
HarperOne, featuring an introspective look into the challenges she
faced while being raised by teenage parents in the Bronx housing
projects, the many obstacles she overcame to become a federal
prosecutor, and her ultimate path to becoming an incredibly successful
television journalist.

Hostin is also the founder and CEO of Sunny Hostin Productions, a
global multiplatform media company that produces and creates premium
film and television content highlighting important social justice
issues, meaningful stories and underrepresented groups. The
company’s first project is to develop her novel, “Summer on the
Bluffs,” as a dramatic series for Amazon MGM Studios.

As a highly respected attorney and investigative journalist, Sunny has
made a name for herself using her expertise in federal prosecution and
true crime to bring a number of high-profile stories to light. In
2025, Sunny hosted “Diddy on Trial: As It Happened,” which debuted
at No. 3 on Hulu. In 2021, Sunny was part of the groundbreaking ABC
primetime newscast “Soul of a Nation,” the first broadcast network
newsmagazine aiming to put Black life in America front and center.
Sunny moderated a provocative recurring conversational segment called
“In the Kitchen,” where a group of talkers and thinkers joined her
for a candid discussion on current events. In 2019, Sunny hosted and
executive produced the six-episode documentary series “Truth About
Murder with Sunny Hostin” for Investigation Discovery, which
explored some of the most infamous homicides in the nation.

After graduating from Notre Dame Law School, Hostin began her career
as an appellate law clerk and went on to become a trial attorney and a
federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice.
During her time as an assistant U.S. attorney, she was awarded the
Special Achievement Award by Attorney General Janet Reno for her
prosecution of child sexual predators.

A gifted storyteller, Sunny’s impressive depth of knowledge carries
over to politics and the criminal justice system. She has brought
clarity and context to some of the biggest stories of the past decade,
including incisive political analysis of Trump’s 2016 presidential
campaign and subsequent presidency; the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at
the Capitol; the Derek Chauvin trial and verdict; the college
admission scandal; the George Zimmerman trial; the unrest in Ferguson
and Baltimore; and the AME church shooting in Charleston, South
Carolina. In May 2020, Sunny and a group of Black female activists
penned an authoritative op-ed for The Washington Post, urging
presidential candidate Joe Biden to select a Black female
vice-presidential candidate, ultimately predicting his selection of
Kamala Harris. Sunny has won two Emmys for her work as a correspondent
for ABC’s “Good Morning America,” one for her work as a
correspondent for the ABC News special “The President and the
People,” and two for her work hosting ABC’s special event coverage
of New York City’s 2023 and 2024 Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Sunny currently resides in New York with her husband, Manny, and two
children.
