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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Water Main Break Shoots Up 20-Foot Geyser Near University Village
A large water pipe next to the University Village mall, just east of the University of Washington, erupted Tuesday afternoon, shooting a 20-foot geyser
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Contaminated Foster Farms Chicken Infects 278 People
The US Department of Agriculture reported on Tuesday that 278 people have been infected with salmonella following an outbreak likely originating from three
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Woman Found Shot Dead On Burke-Gilman Trail In Wallingford
A woman in her 20s was found shot dead at 4:30 a.m. on Friday morning just off the Burke-Gilman trail in Seattles Wallingford neighborhood. Police believe