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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PHOTOS: Sunbathers Gawked As Wildfires Burned Chelan
It was a hot Friday morning when a bolt of lightning stretched out three fingers and hit Chelan Butte. Then a deafening clap of thunder. Then several...
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Kids Are Fighting Wildfires In Washington State
Crews of juvenile inmates have been sent to fight wildfires in Washington state since the 1960s. Until a teen escaped last week, assaulted a supervisor...
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In Twisp: 'If The Fire Comes Our Way, We’re Going To Stay'
Wildfire was roaring toward their 640-acre ranch near Twisp, but Judy Doran McBride and her husband stood their ground. “If the fire comes our way, we...
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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...