Michael Brodkorb is an American communications consultant, media specialist, researcher, author and former Minnesota Republican activist.

Brodkorb created and maintains a website related to his work on the Minnesota case on which The Girls Are Gone is based.

Missing in Minnesota began as a place for case updates and has transitioned into the online companion to The Girls Are Gone.

[7] In his role as an aide to Senjem and Koch, he is credited with helping to engineer the Republican takeover of the state senate in 2010.

[9] On January 23, 2013, Brodkorb was injured in a single-car crash on Interstate 35E when his vehicle hit a concrete wall.