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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Arts & Life
Luke Skywalker himself tells Seattle how to survive snowpocalypse
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Arts & Life
Temps drop and Seattle panics: What about the hummingbirds?!
This story was originally published exactly two years ago, February 10, 2019. Scroll down for an update.
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Environment
As snow falls, Seattle stocks up on de-icer, avocados and ... weed
Sales were also way up at Hashtag Cannabis, the marijuana dispensary with a store in Fremont. Sales on Thursday and Friday were double what the company expects for this time of year.
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Arts & Life
Seattle hears snow forecast, descends on grocery stores like the apocalypse is coming
At the Safeway in the University District, salt was completely sold out. “And it’s not just the rock salt,” said Steve Bailey, who was stocking shelves. “What was weird is that every single table salt was bought in one day.”
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UW student who fell on campus died of natural causes, medical examiner says
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Arts & Life
Seattle so pretty in snow: Photos you shared with us
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Arts & Life
PHOTOS: Snow day! School is out and sleds are in
This was supposed to be a story about how Seattle's long-awaited, deep bore tunnel is FINALLY OPEN.
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Health
More than 100 King County schools don’t meet measles vaccination standards
...And how King County compares with Clark County, heart of a measles outbreak.
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Race & Identity
Martin Luther King workshopped his 'I have a dream' speech in Seattle
Martin Luther King Jr. visited Seattle one time – in 1961. He gave a speech that had lines that would make their way into his famous “I have a dream” speech.
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Business
Microsoft puts $500M toward housing crisis; says tech partly to blame for homelessness
President Brad Smith connected the tech boom with homelessness and lack of affordable housing.