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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Seattle's 'Reparations' experiment is working
Natasha Marin is a Seattle artist who noticed a divide on her Facebook feed: Her black friends were angry and frustrated about police shootings of black...
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Your house has secrets. Here's how to find them
First, an admission. We were clueless when we started researching the house at 1643 South King Street in Seattle's International District.
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If these walls could talk, the stories they would tell
If this house could talk, what stories would it tell?
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Seattle vigil for Orlando: 'These beautiful boys that got killed out of blind hatred'
At a vigil Sunday night, Seattleites shared their thoughts about the Orlando shooting that occurred earlier that morning. Ricquel Sears of Capitol Hill,...
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9 heartbreaking responses to ‘A man shouts racial slurs at a Seattle Starbucks’
Last week we published an essay by Dr. Bob Hughes about a shocking experience at a Starbucks on Capitol Hill in Seattle. Hughes was meeting with a...
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Seattle's first black Seafair queen and others from these forgotten photos
A year ago, we published photos from the 1940s and 50s of black people in Seattle just living their lives.
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PHOTOS: Fishing at night in downtown Seattle
With his dark-rimmed glasses, Jonah Knutson doesn’t look like the salty fisherman. But he smells like it.
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Series of sexual assaults hit UW campus
There's been a spate of rapes and sexual assaults on the University of Washington campus, although police do not believe these incidents are related....
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This is Donald Trump and his wife Phyllis
Donald L. Trump of Des Moines, Washington, doesn’t have a red cap. “I don’t have the hair, the money or the big mouth,” he says.
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14 top political donors in Washington state and what they support
The task seemed simple: Find top political donors in Washington state. Turns out following the money in Washington state is nearly impossible. Try...