Six-time Emmy® Award winner and New York Times bestselling author
Sunny Hostin has been a co-host of ABC’s “The View” since 2016.
Hostin 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.

As a highly respected attorney and investigative journalist, Hostin
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, Hostin hosted “Diddy on Trial: As It Happened,” which
debuted at No. 3 on Hulu. In 2021, she 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. Hostin 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, she 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, Hostin brings impressive depth of knowledge 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 and 2024 presidential
campaigns and subsequent presidencies; 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. Hostin 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, 2024 and 2025 Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Hostin currently resides in New York with her husband Manny and two
children
