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
-
We asked Seattle candidates to answer offbeat questions. Jessyn Farrell's response:
After their formal interviews , we asked Seattle mayoral candidates to answer less traditional questions. The goal was to humanize them beyond the wonk....
-
Jenny Durkan doesn't want to be known as the establishment candidate
After their formal interviews , we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. For a decade,...
-
Mike McGinn won't kiss the ring: 'This city belongs to all of us'
After their formal interviews , we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Mike McGinn,...
-
Nikkita Oliver: Let's find the will to meet progressive words with action
After their formal interviews , we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. The first...
-
Bob Hasegawa vaped for this photo shoot and it was awesome
After their formal interviews , we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Bob Hasegawa,...
-
Cary Moon's real name is Carol and no, she's not related to Molly Moon
After their formal interviews , we asked candidates to answer less traditional questions. Scroll down to read their handwritten responses. Cary Moon is...
-
What these twin sisters saw after Charleena Lyles' shooting
In the minutes after Charleena Lyles was shot by police, a 12-year-old girl slipped by police officers and ran up four flights of stairs.
-
I didn't want to drop case, says accuser in Seattle mayor sex abuse suit
Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of abusing him, withdrew his lawsuit this week. But he said he did it at his attorneys'...
-
To understand white liberal racism, read these private emails
On a gray day in October 2016, teachers across Seattle wore a shirt that read BLACK LIVES MATTER.
-
Mayor Murray’s accuser withdraws sexual abuse lawsuit
Delvonn Heckard, the man who accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of paying him for sex when he was 15, has withdrawn his lawsuit. Heckard submitted a motion...