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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Education
'She did what she had to do.' A school board finalist reckons with a complicated past
On Thursday morning last week, a mom asked Emijah Smith for help.
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Health
Seattle kids without measles vaccine or paperwork will be excluded from school
When Tracy Bennett, the head of Seattle Waldorf School, got word last spring that the state would make it a lot harder to forgo the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, she got to work.
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Politics
Trends we noticed on primary election night in Seattle …
The first batch of primary election results dropped on Tuesday night, and we’re noticing some trends.
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Environment
Orca population drops as 3 more killer whales presumed dead
Three endangered orcas are believed to be dead, according to the Center for Whale Research, which keeps an eye on the southern resident killer whales of the Salish Sea.
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Crime
Who is Paige Thompson, the Seattle woman accused of hacking Capital One?
On Monday, federal investigators raided a small house on Beacon Hill and arrested a 33-year-old woman named Paige A. Thompson.
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Health
The shame we carried
Yvonne described it as a horror movie playing on a loop in her mind.
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Health
Resources: postpartum anxiety and depression
Read: "The shame we carried." A reporter shares her experience with postpartum anxiety and obsessive compulsive, and speaks with other moms about theirs.
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Environment
Nine popular Seattle beaches closed after 3M gallon sewage spill
Three million gallons is roughly five Olympic-sized pools
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'His heart was tender.' Daughter of antifa killed at Tacoma immigration jail reflects on his life
On Saturday, a 69-year-old man named Willem van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, was shot dead by police outside the Northwest Detention Center, a jail for immigrants in Tacoma.
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Man with flares and a rifle shot dead at immigration jail in Tacoma
An armed man who had been throwing explosives at the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, was shot dead by police on Saturday morning.