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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Wenatchee Fire: Embers The Size Of Bread Loaves
Fire came floating out of the sky into Wenatchee. “Some of the embers we gathered and posted on social media, I mean, they're the size of a loaf of...
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Seattle Pride: These Teens Don't Even Need To Come Out
On Sunday morning, ahead of Seattle Pride 2015, marchers gathered in a parking lot under the freeway. They blew balloons, lathered on sunscreen and told...
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Algae Bloom Hits Dungeness Crabbers Hard On Washington Coast
TOKELAND, Wash. – Tom Petersen’s 50-foot crab boat sits idly in the Port of Willapa Harbor, a tiny coastal inlet 40 or so miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River.
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Sex And Babies: Why 4 Justices Opposed Gay Marriage
Not everyone was waving the rainbow flag on Friday morning. Certainly not the four dissenting justices who opposed same-sex marriage. The justices --...
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Mariners Join Seattle Pride Parade For First Time
Members of the Seattle Mariners franchise – including the moose! – will march in the Pride Parade for the first time on Sunday. About 30 staffers will...
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What Being American Means In Seattle
"I wanted to feel I belong." On Sunday, KUOW partnered with CityClub, Citizen University and One America to celebrate citizenship and civic life at City...
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Carnation Family's Killer Dodges Death Penalty
A King County jury has sentenced Joseph McEnroe, who killed his ex-girlfriend's family in Carnation, Washington, to life in prison. McEnroe had...
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Are Parents Today More Mindful Or Paranoid?
You were probably a free-range kid. You rode your bike around the neighborhood and walked to school alone. Your parents warned of the dangers – which...
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Most-Read Books At The Seattle Public Library
We’re always looking for good book recommendations, which is why you often hear librarian Nancy Pearl on KUOW. That's why, ahead of summer reading...
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‘Don’t Go There’: Seattle Sherpa Keeps Returning To Everest
Months after Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa’s oldest brother died climbing in the Himalayas, Lhakpa Gelu determined that he would summit a Himalayan peak. His...