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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Episode 3: Adults in the Room, 'Blame the Messenger'
Months go by as two student reporters anxiously await the results of an investigation into a teacher accused of sexual misconduct. Then a sudden tragedy changes everything.
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Episode 2: Price of Belief, Adults in the Room
Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student. In the fallout of the revelation about their principal, Isolde and Ella hear a second-hand allegation of child abuse against teacher Tom Hudson from a member of his outdoors club, Post 84. The students debate what they should do and decide to bring the allegation to their journalism teacher, Dave Ehrich, and Isolde’s parents.
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New KUOW docuseries: Adults in the Room
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympic National Park. Six of his teenage students then pull off a daring rescue.
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A KUOW journalist returns to the story that rocked Garfield High School when she was a student
“Adults in the Room” is a new KUOW series that goes back to Garfield High School in the late 90s, when student journalists reported on allegations of sexual abuse by a teacher.
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Two Seattle girls learn a secret at their high school. Their lives change forever.
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2 teen boys killed at bus stop on Rainier Avenue in Seattle
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In Seattle mayor’s race, history gives Katie Wilson supporters reason to hope
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Start biting those nails: No clear winner in Seattle mayor’s race — yet
Incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell secured about 53% of the vote in Seattle on election night. That doesn’t mean Harrell is safe.
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PHOTOS: This is how the Northwest showed up for No Kings protests
On Saturday, June 14, tens of thousands of people around the Pacific Northwest joined a No Kings protest -- a collective protest against President Donald Trump's immigration raids and ICE actions. Here are photos from around the region, in tiny towns and big cities.
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Irish woman with green card held at Tacoma ICE center, questioned about decades-old drug conviction
An Irish woman has been taken into custody at the ICE detention center in Tacoma, according to federal records and a GoFundMe by her sister.