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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Massive shortage of pain meds affects Seattle hospitals
The supply room for drugs at Wenatchee LifeLine, a rural ambulance service, is bare. Morphine is scant. Bags of saline are precious.
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PHOTOS: Young and homeless on the Ave in Seattle
Nostalgia thrives on the Ave. That’s University Way Northeast to cartographers, a street that pounds with construction and smells of $6.99 Thai lunch...
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Carmen Best will be considered for Seattle police chief, after all
Carmen Best, Seattle’s interim police chief, will be considered for the top job, after all.
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What does consent mean to you? Join our conversation
Since the dawn of the #metoo movement, I have had conversations with men close to me who are reflecting on past sexual experiences. One man told me that...
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The U.S. government has forcibly separated families before. Here are 4 other times
Un-American: A word being used to describe the separations of children from their parents at the Mexican border. History, however, suggests this is very...
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Their mascot was called racist. These Seattle-area students voted to keep it
The Rebel remains. Students at Juanita High School, in Kirkland, have voted overwhelmingly to keep their controversial mascot.
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We photographed Ericka when she was a sex worker. This is her life now
In 2015, photographer Mike Kane met Ericka, a sex worker on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle. Ericka was selling sex to support her heroin and meth addiction, and she was so weak she believed she could be dead within a year. She was estranged from her three young daughters and spent many nights on the street.
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6 pictures that show what homelessness looks like in 2018
On a single night in January, more than 12,000 people were counted as homeless throughout Seattle and King County.
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911 call: 'I got attacked by a mountain lion. My friend did too'
Isaac Sederbaum, badly bloodied, finally connected with 911 on the fourth call. “I got attacked by a mountain lion,” he said. He was breathless. “My...
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These 3 dishes from JuneBaby recall history of the Deep South
Chef Edouardo Jordan brought major gold home to Seattle this week by winning two James Beard Awards. One for Best Northwest Chef, a recognition of his...