Ana Navarro
Ana Violeta Navarro-Cárdenas (née Navarro Flores;[1] born December 28, 1971)[2] is a Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator. She appears on various television programs and news outlets, including CNN, CNN en Español,[3] ABC News, and Telemundo.[4] She is also a co-host of the daytime talk show The View,[5] garnering Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Navarro and the second or maternal family name is Flores.
Ana Navarro
Navarro has described her political position as "centrist".[6] Although she is a member of the Republican Party,[7][8][9] she has been a vocal critic of Republican president Donald Trump and his administration.[10][11]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in 1971 to a wealthy land-owning agricultural family in Nicaragua,[12] Navarro is the daughter of Violeta Flores López and José Augusto Navarro Flores, a former Minister of Agriculture under the administration of Enrique Bolaños Geyer.[1] She and her family moved to the United States in 1980 because of political turmoil,[1] though her father stayed behind to continue to fight with the Contras against the Sandinista government. She later said that then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan's support of the Contras made her a lifelong Republican.[13]
Navarro attended the Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic college preparatory day school for girls in Coconut Grove, Miami.[14] Navarro earned a Bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and Political Science in 1993 from the University of Miami. In 1997, she earned her Juris Doctor from St. Thomas University School of Law.[15]
During her first year in university, Navarro campaigned for aid to the Contras.[12] As a law student, Navarro successfully fought to keep Nicaraguan refugees from being deported during the mid-nineties.[13]
Career[edit]
Navarro is a member of the Republican Party[7] and has served in a number of Republican administrations, including the transition team for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in 1998, as well as his Director of Immigration Policy. She also served as ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, where she condemned human rights violations in Cuba. She later served as the National Co-Chair of the Hispanic Advisory Council for John McCain in 2008 and Jon Huntsman Jr. in 2012.[12]
In February 2014, she became a political commentator for ABC News.[16] In addition, she is also a political commentator on CNN and CNN en Español.[14] Navarro became a contributor on the ABC daytime talk show The View in 2013.[17] She joined the series as a weekly guest co-host in 2018 and a permanent co-host in 2022.[18] She received Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host in 2020 and 2022 as well as Outstanding Daytime Talk Series Host in 2024.[19][20][21]
Personal life[edit]
Navarro resides in Miami.[13][37] She married lawyer and lobbyist Al Cárdenas on March 2, 2019.[38]
In 2020, Navarro was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award[39]