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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King County (and Seattle) move to Phase 2, which means restaurants reopening
King County, home to Seattle, was approved by Washington state on Friday morning to move to Phase 2 of reopening from the coronavirus shutdown. What does this mean?
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Dispatches from CHAZ, Seattle's new autonomous zone
For 10 nights, Seattle police faced off with protesters on Capitol Hill in Seattle. As one, cops formed a thick wall protecting the East Precinct.
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This woman 'died three times' after Seattle Police hit her with a blast ball
On Sunday night, on the tenth day of protests for racial justice in Seattle, a petite young woman stood between protesters and a barricade of police.
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'They've given us the precinct.' Seattle Police backs away, and protesters take back Pine
The Seattle Police Department announced Monday afternoon that the barricade near the East Precinct -- where officers have used pepper spray, tear gas and flash bang grenades on demonstrators in recent days--would be removed.
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Rein in police, city council members tell Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan
Seattle City Council members Lisa Herbold, Lorena Gonzalez, Teresa Mosqueda and Tammy Morales have joined other elected officials in calling on Mayor Jenny Durkan to order Seattle police to de-escalate their response to the protests.
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Car drives into Seattle protest; driver shoots 27-year-old male protester
A car sped into protesters on Sunday evening in Seattle on Capitol Hill, just before 9 p.m.
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Seattle Police will stop using tear gas on protesters, chief says
Carmen Best, chief of the Seattle Police Department, announced on Friday that her officers would stop using tear gas on protesters.
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Act of love: People cleaned Seattle streets in solidarity after protests
Photographer Joshua Trujillo of Seattle documented the cleanup
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'Mistaken identity' leads to lockdown at VA Puget Sound
There have been reports of a lockdown at VA Puget Sound, the medical provider for veterans in the region, around 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
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In Seattle, a protest for George Floyd, and for Black America
Thunder, be damned, and the pandemic, too.