Five-time Emmy Award-winner and two-time New York Times best-selling author Sunny Hostin
has been a co-host of 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. On May 2, 2023, Sunny released the second book in her “Summer” trilogy, Summer
on Sag Harbor, which became an instant New York Times bestseller. In May 2021, Hostin
released her debut novel, Summer on the Bluffs (William Morrow), which skyrocketed to #11 on
The New York Times Bestseller List. The third book in the trilogy, Summer on Highland Beach,
is scheduled to be released in 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.
Sunny is also the founder & CEO of Sunny Hostin Productions, a global, multi-platform 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 Sunny’s novel, Summer on the Bluffs, as a dramatic series alongside
Octavia Spencer’s Orit Entertainment.
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 highprofile stories
to light. In 2019, Sunny hosted, and executive produced a six-episode documentary series,
Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin, for Investigation Discovery, which explores some of the
most infamous homicides in the nation. In the series, Sunny delves into each case, meeting with
forensic experts, law enforcement officials, prosecutors, defense attorneys and the families of
each victim to provide a comprehensive view of how cases are solved. 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 conversation called In the Kitchen, where each week a group of talkers
and thinkers joined her for a candid discussion on current events and the theme of the week.
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 federal prosecutor with the United States
Justice Department. 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. An inescapable voice from the top echelons of news and entertainment, she
continues using her platform to advocate for and give voice to the marginalized.
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 January 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. 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 vicepresidential 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, and one for her work as a correspondent for
the ABC News Special, The President and the People.
Sunny currently resides in New York with her husband Manny and two children, Gabriel and
Paloma.