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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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.
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Trump's VA launches 'anti-Christian bias' investigation effort
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs has directed employees to report any incidents perceived as hostile toward the Christian faith. The move is aimed at aligning with the Trump administration's executive order to "end the anti-Christian weaponization of government," according to an internal email.
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'Beauty and the chief.' How a secret romance ended former Seattle Police Chief Diaz's career
It began with a rumor that former police chief Adrian Diaz had a paramour, which he dismissed as tawdry gossip, a conspiracy ginned up by his detractors.