Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Isolde attended James A. Garfield High School in Seattle and later graduated from Barnard College in New York City. She received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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The Gotta-go-Joe to Pro-Joe meter: Washington state edition
Politicians and political donors spoke up last week about whether they believe President Joe Biden should stay in the race.
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‘I am a gay Latino man,’ says former Seattle Chief Adrian Diaz after stepping down
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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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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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Melinda French Gates to leave Gates Foundation; will pivot to gender equality
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An old horse named Razzle Dazzle and a loaf of white bread: Inside the runaway zebra rescue