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.
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.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French (fluent)
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
-
What other banks are loaning money to the Dakota Access Pipeline?
The City of Seattle promised last month that it would stop banking with Wells Fargo, because the bank pledged hundreds of millions in loan money to...
-
How pretty you are in snow today, Seattle
There is almost nothing so special as a snowy day in Seattle. They are rare, about once every other year, and when they hit, the city shuts down.
-
Seattle will be first in nation with site for legal heroin use
It's official: Seattle plans to be the first city in the United States to open a site for users to inject illegal drugs – without police intervention.
-
Trump Hotels might try to build the tallest building in Seattle
Trump Hotels said this week that it plans to build a luxury hotel in Seattle, according to Bloomberg.
-
PHOTOS: Old school Seattle in snow, failing at driving
If you've lived in Seattle for a long time, you know that snow is unusual, and increasingly so.
-
Roller coaster of heartbreak and fury at Sea-Tac in wake of Trump order
When officials at Sea-Tac International Airport got wind of President Donald Trump’s latest order, it came like a slap in the face. It was just before...
-
Seattle to Trump: We will not be bullied
Update: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray says Seattle is willing to risk money to stick to its principles. Six days in to his presidency, Donald Trump made good...
-
Major gas leak at construction site in University District
Seattle firefighters were called to the scene of a major gas leak early on Friday afternoon in Seattle’s University District.
-
Muslim teen found hanged in woods hadn't attended school for 3 weeks
Police continue to investigate the death of a Muslim teenager who was found hanging from a high branch in the woods north of Seattle.
-
Rare, haunting photos from the Japanese internment
It’s not often that we look back on ugly times in our nation’s history. We’re not very good at that as Americans. But the Japanese internment has been...
