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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We photographed Ericka when she was a sex worker. This is her life now
In 2015, photographer Mike Kane met Ericka, a sex worker on Aurora Avenue North in Seattle. Ericka was selling sex to support her heroin and meth addiction, and she was so weak she believed she could be dead within a year. She was estranged from her three young daughters and spent many nights on the street.
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6 pictures that show what homelessness looks like in 2018
On a single night in January, more than 12,000 people were counted as homeless throughout Seattle and King County.
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911 call: 'I got attacked by a mountain lion. My friend did too'
Isaac Sederbaum, badly bloodied, finally connected with 911 on the fourth call. “I got attacked by a mountain lion,” he said. He was breathless. “My...
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These 3 dishes from JuneBaby recall history of the Deep South
Chef Edouardo Jordan brought major gold home to Seattle this week by winning two James Beard Awards. One for Best Northwest Chef, a recognition of his...
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‘I didn’t want to put fried chicken on the menu.’ Seattle’s Edouardo Jordan wins top prize
Seattle Chef Edouardo Jordan kept one item off his menu when he opened Salare in 2015. “I didn’t want to put fried chicken on the menu,” Jordan said in...
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The day Seattle Nice died
Let May 2, 2018, be known as the day that Seattle Nice died.
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'Alexa, make an elephant sneeze noise.'
I debated whether to share this fart story with you, because farts are – unfairly, in my opinion – maligned as juvenile and bad manners. But I decided...
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‘Alexa, make a fart noise.’ (Yes, this includes audio)
I debated whether to share this fart story with you, because farts are – unfairly, in my opinion – maligned as juvenile and bad manners. But I decided...
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Mayor Murray spokesman has abuse, sexual harassment allegations in his past, too
Benton Strong, the spokesman who stood by embattled Mayor Ed Murray to the end, has been revealed to have a checkered past of his own.
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Is this public service or public shaming?
In the photo above — posted by the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook and Twitter this week – a man sits on the ground after being Tased by...