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
- DNR: Mille Lacs Lake anglers can keep two walleye this summer
- COVID boosted efforts to track diseases in wastewater
- Getting to Green: Can Minnesota get to carbon-free energy?
- Minnesota lawmakers consider allowing heavier ATVs
- New fines and awareness help reduce litter on Minnesota lakes, but advocates want more action
- As inspiration for ‘The Brutalist,’ famed St. John’s Abbey Church gains renewed interest
- For a St. Cloud family, Trump’s pause of refugee admissions brings worry for Afghan relatives
- Minnesota lawmaker wants statewide ban on new billboard signs
- Water-guzzling data centers spark worries for Minnesota’s groundwater
- School bus driver narrowly avoids head-on collision with semi in central Minnesota