Isolde Raftery
Interim Managing Editor
About
Isolde Raftery has been the Interim Managing Editor KUOW since 2024. Previously at KUOW, she was online managing editor, investigations team editor, and web editor.
She has reported for NBCNews.com, The New York Times (where she was a fellow on the Metro desk), 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.
Location: Seattle
Languages: English, French (fluent)
Pronouns: she/her
Stories
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Shakeup of command staff at Seattle Police Department
Command staff at the Seattle Police Department is undergoing dramatic changes, according to an email sent to the department on Monday morning.
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How the journey of one gun tells the story of many
Last November, a 14 year old boy shot and killed a fellow student at Ingraham high school in Seattle. The gun that student used traveled through the hands of multiple teenagers before it reached him, starting in an unsecured closet.
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Megan Rapinoe, pink-haired soccer legend, announces retirement
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Don't forget to enroll your kid in kindergarten like I did
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Upscale grocery store Metropolitan Market to open location in north Ballard
Metropolitan Market, a boutique Seattle supermarket chain, is opening a 10th location in Crown Hill, in north Ballard, on August 30.
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How Luma, an ancient cedar, has transfixed Seattle
Seattle is a young racehorse of a city, a mere babe at 172 years old, who propelled herself through the jet age and now a tech boom, amassing wealth and dreamers and high rises and artisanal bakeries that sell $11 loaves and no one bats an eye.
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5 people shot at Rainier Beach Safeway in Seattle
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Election results: 2023 primary in Seattle and King County
These are the primary election results from August 1, 2023 for Seattle and King County.
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Burglar dressed as firefighter to rob home amid wildfire near Spokane: sheriff
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Listen to the last song Toki, the captive orca, sang, a tune her mother taught her
