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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Who is Paige Thompson, the Seattle woman accused of hacking Capital One?
On Monday, federal investigators raided a small house on Beacon Hill and arrested a 33-year-old woman named Paige A. Thompson.
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The shame we carried
Yvonne described it as a horror movie playing on a loop in her mind.
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Resources: postpartum anxiety and depression
Read: "The shame we carried." A reporter shares her experience with postpartum anxiety and obsessive compulsive, and speaks with other moms about theirs.
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Nine popular Seattle beaches closed after 3M gallon sewage spill
Three million gallons is roughly five Olympic-sized pools
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'His heart was tender.' Daughter of antifa killed at Tacoma immigration jail reflects on his life
On Saturday, a 69-year-old man named Willem van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, was shot dead by police outside the Northwest Detention Center, a jail for immigrants in Tacoma.
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Man with flares and a rifle shot dead at immigration jail in Tacoma
An armed man who had been throwing explosives at the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, was shot dead by police on Saturday morning.
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Talbott defense doubles down on rape versus consensual sex angle in appeal
William Talbott II, who was found guilty two weeks ago of murdering a young Canadian couple on an overnight road trip to Seattle, has asked for a new trial.
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Top quotes from Megan Rapinoe's speech (no, she's not running for president)
Was Megan Rapinoe, of the purple-now-pink hair and fierce penalty kick … tipsy?
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Tupperware writes us a surprising email about a needle disposal story
Last week, KUOW reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reported on what to do with discarded needles.
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Joe Biden catches heat in Seattle over gay rights comment. But context may be key
Seattle might not have made fun of a gay waiter five years ago, but what about a trans waiter?