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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A Seattle-area gun owner asks: Do we really need these weapons?
The day after the Orlando nightclub shooting, Tami Michaels, a Seattle talk show host, took to Facebook.
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Weird free food in the KUOW break room
The subject line read: "There is fresh, raw Nigerian pygmy goat's milk in the fridge."* And beneath it: "I'm not going to drink it all, so feel free."...
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What's the right way to go around Green Lake?
“What’s the right way to go around Green Lake?” Isaac Chirino of Shoreline asked KUOW’s Local Wonder. Boy, people REALLY care about this one. People...
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Seattle's 'Reparations' experiment is working
Natasha Marin is a Seattle artist who noticed a divide on her Facebook feed: Her black friends were angry and frustrated about police shootings of black...
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Your house has secrets. Here's how to find them
First, an admission. We were clueless when we started researching the house at 1643 South King Street in Seattle's International District.
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If these walls could talk, the stories they would tell
If this house could talk, what stories would it tell?
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Seattle vigil for Orlando: 'These beautiful boys that got killed out of blind hatred'
At a vigil Sunday night, Seattleites shared their thoughts about the Orlando shooting that occurred earlier that morning. Ricquel Sears of Capitol Hill,...
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9 heartbreaking responses to ‘A man shouts racial slurs at a Seattle Starbucks’
Last week we published an essay by Dr. Bob Hughes about a shocking experience at a Starbucks on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Hughes was meeting with a...
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Seattle's first black Seafair queen and others from these forgotten photos
A year ago, we published photos from the 1940s and 50s of black people in Seattle just living their lives.
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PHOTOS: Fishing at night in downtown Seattle
With his dark-rimmed glasses, Jonah Knutson doesn’t look like the salty fisherman. But he smells like it.