Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously, she was the station's Online Managing Editor.
She has worked for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up in Dublin, Paris, and Seattle, where she attended James A. Garfield High School. She later graduated from Barnard College in New York City and received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
You can send her tips and story ideas via email or, more privately, by Instagram direct message @isoldedenise.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Education
Mapped: Shootings around Seattle's Garfield High School this year
In the last year, there have been at least six shootings in and around Garfield High School in Seattle's Central District.
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Food
Trader Joe's is coming to Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood. (Tired moms rejoice)
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Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz is being dismissed
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Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz out; former Sheriff Sue Rahr interim
Updated at 1 p.m. 5/29/2024
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Assistant chief with Seattle Police put on leave, reasons unclear
Updated 4:15 p.m. on 5/24/2024.
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Seattle Police must report what it’s doing to hire women: City Council resolution
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Arts & Life
Melinda French Gates to leave Gates Foundation; will pivot to gender equality
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Animals
An old horse named Razzle Dazzle and a loaf of white bread: Inside the runaway zebra rescue
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Animals
THE ZEBRA IS A SHE-BRA. Does the North Bend ‘stallion’ just want to be free?
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Politics
Seattle mayor taps outside investigator to address Seattle Police sexism claims