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
- Where’s the water? Drought dries up Minnesota lake levels
- Cyberattacks in Minnesota expose vulnerability of U.S. water systems
- Labor Department recovers $613,000 in back wages from Minnesota restaurant group
- Rangers recover canoes, gear abandoned by campers who fled BWCA fires
- Northern Minnesota camps to reopen as wildfire conditions improve
- Campfire restrictions eased in parts of Superior National Forest, but continue in BWCA
- As central Minnesota coal plant edges toward closure, massive solar project keeps growing
- Residents of northern Minnesota lake community voice skepticism about mining manganese
- Deaths of Brainerd middle schoolers prompt calls to address bullying, mental health
- Boundary Waters closed? These alternatives can deliver a wilderness fix
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