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
Podcasts
Stories
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This is how hard it is to identify a Seattle cop
In Seattle, a police officer's "badge number" could be a unique identifier — or it could be a number on a randomly assigned badge. And even when the number does identify an individual officer, it can still be tricky to identify them using that alone
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Police neck restraints now banned in many Seattle suburbs
Police chiefs say protests were the catalyst for change.
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Seattle officers apply elsewhere as city leaders consider cutting police department in half
Seattle Police officers are applying to police jobs in other police agencies, according to applications received at police departments in Everett, Federal Way, Renton, and the King County Sheriff's Office.
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Seattle Schools should be all online in fall, superintendent recommends
The school board will vote on whether to return students to school, or keep them remote next month.
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Coronavirus cases see June, July increases in Seattle and King County
Seattle had its highest number of coronavirus cases last Tuesday, June 30, surpassing the daily totals from earlier in the pandemic.
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These are protesters who were injured by Seattle Police in demonstrations for racial justice
Amid Seattle protests against racism and police violence, several stories of people injured by police grabbed our readers' attention. These are their stories.
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'You chose to carry the lantern.' Response to a Seattle protester injured on the front lines
Many readers responded to our recent story about a Seattle protester who was hit in the chest with a police flash-bang grenade, at close range, on Sunday, June 7. The blast landed her in the emergency room, where medical records indicate she was treated for cardiac arrest and faced "life threatening deterioration." Here is a letter from a Black father in Washington D.C. , who said this young protester earned a place in his heart.
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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.