Isolde Raftery
Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Managing Editor at 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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What these twin sisters saw after Charleena Lyles' shooting
In the minutes after Charleena Lyles was shot by police, a 12-year-old girl slipped by police officers and ran up four flights of stairs.
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I didn't want to drop case, says accuser in Seattle mayor sex abuse suit
Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of abusing him, withdrew his lawsuit this week. But he said he did it at his attorneys'...
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To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails
On a gray day in October 2016, teachers across Seattle wore a shirt that read BLACK LIVES MATTER.
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Mayor Murray’s accuser withdraws sexual abuse lawsuit
Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex when he was 15, has withdrawn his lawsuit. Heckard submitted a motion...
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Stunning photos of moms of color breastfeeding
They were riding the D Line bus in Seattle when baby got hungry. Mom pulled out her boob.
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Dark, sad poetry by kids in Seattle's juvenile jail
The girl had been raped as a child. Years later, she was in juvenile detention in Seattle, telling her story to Richard Gold, who was helping her write...
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Traffic for miles and 6 stuck elevators this Saturday morning
A downed power line wreaked havoc on north Seattle traffic on Saturday morning – resulting in major backups on Interstate 5 at Northeast 130th Street.
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3 officers shot, 1 suspect dead in Seattle 7-Eleven robbery
Three Seattle Police officers were shot on Thursday afternoon after a robbery at a 7-Eleven convenience store in downtown Seattle. One of the three...
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Silence around Seattle mayor’s rape allegations
This was going to be a story about how far we’ve come in talking about victims of sexual abuse.
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Mayor Murray's editorial, annotated
A week ago, a man with the initials D.H. filed a lawsuit saying that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray had paid him for sex as a teenager in the 1980s. D.H., who...
