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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This is why some Seattle schools didn’t allow costumes on Halloween
Yes, dressing up as a voodoo doll is cultural appropriation.
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Yes, this is a mushroom. Wild photos of fungi in the Northwest
Mushrooms
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36 hours with Donald Trump, in pictures
It's hard to keep track of the news that President Donald Trump generates.
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Gas leak in University District: Don't go out onto the Ave, officials say
A gas leak in Seattle’s University District has all but shut down the surrounding blocks.
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Photographic evidence of climate change in the Northwest
Climate change is not a scary thing that might happen in the future. It is here, and
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All the nice things Kamala Harris said about Washington state
We know that Kamala Harris was lobbing us softballs
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'She did what she had to do.' A school board finalist reckons with a complicated past
On Thursday morning last week, a mom asked Emijah Smith for help.
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Seattle kids without measles vaccine or paperwork will be excluded from school
When Tracy Bennett, the head of Seattle Waldorf School, got word last spring that the state would make it a lot harder to forgo the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, she got to work.
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Trends we noticed on primary election night in Seattle …
The first batch of primary election results dropped on Tuesday night, and we’re noticing some trends.
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Orca population drops as 3 more killer whales presumed dead
Three endangered orcas are believed to be dead, according to the Center for Whale Research, which keeps an eye on the southern resident killer whales of the Salish Sea.