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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Stories Of Courage From UW's Maternity Clinic
The stories from the labor and delivery ward at UW Medical Center in Seattle are often told breathlessly. A nurse tells of a pregnant woman who arrived...
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'Normal Labor' And Why C-Section Rates Climbed So High
Public health officials across the U.S. say the number of cesarean sections being performed has gotten way out of hand. It's a life-saving surgery for...
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Why Some Washington Hospitals Have Such High C-Section Rates
It’s 7 p.m. on a Thursday at Valley Hospital and Medical Center in Spokane, and Dr. Nathan Meltzer has already had a very long day. He has one mother in...
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How Washington State Fared On The CDC's Breastfeeding Report
More moms are breastfeeding than ever before, which is great. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proud of you, breastfeeding moms. And...
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'There Is Fresh, Raw Nigerian Pygmy Goat's Milk In The Fridge'
The subject headline of producer Matthew Streib's email was irresistibly public radio: "There is fresh raw Nigerian pygmy goat's milk in the fridge."...
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Paul Schell, Innkeeper And Former Seattle Mayor, Dies At 76
He is the reason fish fly at the Pike Place Market, or so the story goes.
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Microsoft Layoffs Could Make Seattle Hub Of Cloud And Mobile Tech
Following the announcement by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that the company would undergo a 14 percent reduction in its workforce, conference rooms at...
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Jonesing For A Joint? Too Bad, Seattle Is Out Of Weed
Cannabis City has sold out of its indicas, sativas and hybrids.
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Hey Budtender! Enlighten Me About This Weed
One of the first sales of legal recreational marijuana at Cannabis City in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon.
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A Peek Inside Seattle's Remaining Communes
Four people live in a cozy home on Capitol Hill, which they call WOW, for Wild Old Women. Or that’s what they used to call it; now they call it Wild Old...