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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Firefighters Killed Near Twisp Include Whitman Student And Biologist
The three firefighters who were killed Wednesday in the Okanagon Complex fire in north-central Washington have been identified. They are Tom Zbyszewski,...
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Northwest Wildfires Photographed From Space
From space, the West looks like it’s on fire. In Washington state, brown smoke obscures the Cascades in these photos taken by a NASA satellite. Most of...
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Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond Talks Race, Regrets In This Weekday Interview
Julian Bond, a leading civil rights activist and anti-war campaigner who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and later served as...
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There are worms in the blackberries you just picked
You know those blackberries you just picked? There are worms in them. Tiny white worms, almost transparent, that will ultimately blossom into fruit flies.
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Look Inside Edith Macefield’s House Before It’s Barged To Orcas Island
Edith Macefield’s tiny house will soon float to Orcas Island – but not by balloon. The property owner – a bank that won’t disclose its identity – has...
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Seattle Kids Have Lower Polio Vaccination Rate Than Rwanda
After an outbreak of measles last fall, Washington state health officials hoped that a small subset of parents would change their minds about getting...
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There Are More Dogs Named Frodo Than Fido In Seattle
There is a cat in Seattle named Schrodinger. We don't know if it is alive or dead, but the point is that Seattleites get creative when naming their pets...
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Wenatchee Fire: Embers The Size Of Bread Loaves
Fire came floating out of the sky into Wenatchee. “Some of the embers we gathered and posted on social media, I mean, they're the size of a loaf of...
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Seattle Pride: These Teens Don't Even Need To Come Out
On Sunday morning, ahead of Seattle Pride 2015, marchers gathered in a parking lot under the freeway. They blew balloons, lathered on sunscreen and told...
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Algae Bloom Hits Dungeness Crabbers Hard On Washington Coast
TOKELAND, Wash. – Tom Petersen’s 50-foot crab boat sits idly in the Port of Willapa Harbor, a tiny coastal inlet 40 or so miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River.
