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
-
UW student who fell on campus died of natural causes, medical examiner says
-
Seattle so pretty in snow: Photos you shared with us
-
PHOTOS: Snow day! School is out and sleds are in
This was supposed to be a story about how Seattle's long-awaited, deep bore tunnel is FINALLY OPEN.
-
More than 100 King County schools don’t meet measles vaccination standards
...And how King County compares with Clark County, heart of a measles outbreak.
-
Martin Luther King workshopped his 'I have a dream' speech in Seattle
Martin Luther King Jr. visited Seattle one time – in 1961. He gave a speech that had lines that would make their way into his famous “I have a dream” speech.
-
Microsoft puts $500M toward housing crisis; says tech partly to blame for homelessness
President Brad Smith connected the tech boom with homelessness and lack of affordable housing.
-
Were you there? Seattle threw the viaduct an epic goodbye party
-
Requiem for a viaduct
It was like a bad boyfriend. Loud. Dirty. Unstable.
-
VIDEO: Graphic police shooting footage shows chaotic scene on Seattle's Aurora Ave
The suspect's voice emerges from the chaos, hard to catch upon first listen: “I’m not reaching.”
-
Coyote sightings on the rise in Seattle
Coyotes have roamed Seattle since the 1950s. As wolves were eradicated in the early 1900s, coyotes started filling the space.