Meet Kirsti Marohn
Kirsti Marohn is a correspondent based in Collegeville covering central Minnesota communities, water and the environment. She started at MPR News in 2017.
Kirsti started her journalism career in 1996 as a reporter and editor at the Pine River Journal in Pine River. She then served as a reporter at the St. Cloud Times for nearly 20 years, covering state and local government, investigative stories and the environment. She has also worked as a correspondent for USA Today.
Kirsti’s work has been honored with several awards, including a National Headliner Award for coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists Page One Awards, and awards of merit from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Kirsti graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and history. She lives in Brainerd with her husband, two daughters and a Lab-Shar Pei mix named Gryffindor. She spends her free time running, hiking, kayaking, reading and traveling, and she enjoys taking annual trips to her happy place — the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — with her family.
You can find Kirsti Marohn on LinkedIn.
Recent Contributions
- Former Republican political hopeful denounces party's attacks on his Somali community
- ‘We are here’: In St. Cloud, Somali community pushes back against Trump’s ‘garbage’ comments
- Central Minnesota priest accused of sexually abusing, stalking, threatening woman
- St. Cloud school district program offers free food to families facing insecurity, changes to benefits
- Man shot, injured by law enforcement officers in Monticello after reportedly wielding knife
- ‘Sticky’ pine needles could provide clues about forever chemicals in Minnesota’s air
- Anglers on Mille Lacs can keep three walleye this winter
- New president chosen for St. Cloud State University
- U of M’s Mapping Prejudice Project reveals racist deeds around Sherburne County lakes
- Man dies in crash following police pursuit in St. Cloud