Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously, she was the station's Online Managing Editor.
She has worked for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk in 2010), and the Columbian and Skagit Valley Herald newspapers here in Washington state.
Born in Ireland to an Irish dad and a French mom, Isolde grew up in Dublin, Paris, and Seattle, where she attended James A. Garfield High School. She later graduated from Barnard College in New York City and received a Master's degree in Literary Nonfiction from the University of Oregon.
You can send her tips and story ideas via email or, more privately, by Instagram direct message @isoldedenise.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Seattle Police will stop using tear gas on protesters, chief says
Carmen Best, chief of the Seattle Police Department, announced on Friday that her officers would stop using tear gas on protesters.
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Race & Identity
Act of love: People cleaned Seattle streets in solidarity after protests
Photographer Joshua Trujillo of Seattle documented the cleanup
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'Mistaken identity' leads to lockdown at VA Puget Sound
There have been reports of a lockdown at VA Puget Sound, the medical provider for veterans in the region, around 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
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Race & Identity
In Seattle, a protest for George Floyd, and for Black America
Thunder, be damned, and the pandemic, too.
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Health
'It was bad.' Three hours on the Covid ICU in Seattle
KUOW's Isolde Raftery spent an afternoon on the Covid ICU at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle. She told reporter Joshua McNichols what she saw -- and
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This simple step may prevent fraudsters from posing as you for unemployment money
An international band of imposters have been posing as tens of thousands of Washingtonians to file for unemployment claims since the beginning of May, according to the Employment Security Department. This may have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Health
What these nurses see on the Covid ICU in Seattle
The air turns over every 20 to 25 minutes on the Covid ICU at the University of Washington Medical Center, but no one breathes easy.
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Health
I am the nurse manager on the Covid ICU. We have the sad stories, and those who have beaten this
Amy Haverland is the nurse manager on the Covid intensive care unit at UW Medical Center. She shared what it was like to have her home base turned into the place for the sickest of the sick with coronavirus.
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Trump's 'unhinged rantings' could lead to violence amid a pandemic, Gov. Jay Inslee says
Gov. Jay Inslee issued a bold statement on Friday about President Donald Trump letting governors decide when to open their states.
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Antibody testing could reveal how widespread coronavirus has been in California
California researchers believe that coronavirus may have been spreading in California last fall. That might explain why Californians haven’t been ravaged by the virus -- many of them may have built up immunity.