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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Huge crowd for women's march buries route through Seattle
Here's how big Saturday's women's march in Seattle was: The front reached Seattle Center (the end) before the back had left Judkins Park (the start)....
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Is it safe to bring kids to Seattle's womxn's march?
Seattle’s mommy networks lit up this week with a question: Is it safe to bring our babies to the Womxn’s March on Saturday ?
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Dear Son, I'm sorry you like Trump. And other letters to loved ones
On the eve of the Trump administration, we asked you to write your loved ones. These are those letters.
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Write a letter to a loved one before Trump is president
To our listeners and readers: On the eve of the Trump presidency, we will be publishing letters from you to a loved one. Would you join us? You can love...
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Mosque burns in Bellevue; police arrest homeless man for arson
Updated 8:42 p.m. A fire burned down most of a mosque in Bellevue early on Saturday morning, just one day after a man was charged with a hate crime for...
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Hit of nostalgia: KUOW's year in photos
In the last few years, we've become more visual here at KUOW.
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This 19-year-old elector is prepared to take down Donald Trump
“Not Trump.” The Democrats caucusing in Moses Lake, in rural Washington state, could agree on that.
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The wailing women you never got to hear
Last week on KUOW, you heard the beautiful and heartbreaking story of Lucia Neare . Neare was an orphan who became an artist who specializes in large...
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Why we're saying 'white nationalism' instead of 'alt-right'
In journalism, we avoid wonk. Which is why we at KUOW discussed whether to use the term “alt-right.” Mainstream news sites have plugged it into...
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This mom's choice: Nurse her baby or quit the Postal Service
Iesha Gray called it the drought. One month back from maternity leave, her breasts were empty. No more milk. Her baby girl at home was drinking her way...