Marisa M. Kashino is an editor in the features department at The Washington Post. Previously, as an editor and writer at Washingtonian, she reported long-form narrative features and managed the magazine's real-estate and home-design coverage.
Kashino was a Livingston Award finalist in 2020 for her two-part investigation into a decades-old murder of a young mother in a rural fishing town. Her story uncovered new evidence and helped exonerate a wrongfully convicted man. She was a Livingston finalist in 2015 for her reporting on Donald Trump's crusade to wrest control of Virginia's largest vineyard.
Previously, as a reporter for Legal Times and The National Law Journal, she covered courts, politics, and the business of K Street and Big Law, and traveled to Kabul in 2008 to report on failed democracy-building efforts.
Kashino grew up near Seattle, and graduated cum laude from the University of Washington with a degree in journalism and political science. She lives in the DC area with her husband and several rescue animals.