PERSON: Sunny Hostin

Co-Host

Asunción “Sunny” Cummings Hostin (/ˈhɒstɪn/; born October 20, 1968) is an American lawyer, journalist, author, and television host. Hostin is co-host on ABC’s morning talk show The View, for which she received nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as the Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst for ABC News. She was also the host and executive producer of Investigation Discovery’s true crime series Truth About Murder with Sunny Hostin.

Hostin was born on October 20, 1968, in New York City to a Puerto Rican mother, Rosa Beza, and an African American father, William Cummings. Her maternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew. On the PBS program Finding Your Roots, Hostin learned that she has a large amount of Spanish ancestry and that she is a descendant of Spanish colonizers, with her fourth great-grandfather being a merchant of slaves. Hostin was raised in The Bronx, New York City, attended the all-girls Dominican Academy, and is bilingual in English and Spanish. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English and Rhetoric. From Binghamton University and a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School.

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