Background
Ito was born in Sacramento, California.
Ito was born in Sacramento, California.
She graduated from Sacramento"s Hiram Johnson High School in 1978 and later from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications.
She was also recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists (Sacramento chapter) for feature reporting. She is active with the Sacramento chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA). After working at radio stations KJOY Stockton and KGNR in Sacramento, Ito began her television career at KXTV News10 in Sacramento in 1985 as a producer and news reporter.
She left in 1990 to go to Disney"s startup television station KCAL-television in Los Angeles as a reporter and in 1993 came back home to KPWB-television, now known as KMAX CW 31 in Sacramento.
In September 1996, she returned to KXTV as weekend anchor and weekday reporter. In April 2002, Sharon switched spots with weekday morning anchor Alicia Malaby and Sharon anchored News10 Good Morning from April 2002 to March 2007 with Dan Elliott.
They have one daughter.