Christina Saint Louis is a reporter at the Star Tribune. Before that, she was an investigative reporter at the Miami Herald after becoming the first recipient of the Esserman-Knight Fellowship for an early-career investigative journalist. In that role she has focused on areas including public safety, COVID, politics and labor. She has two degrees from Columbia including a master's in journalism, for which she reported a capstone story on nutrient pollution in the waterways of her home state of Florida.