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Jared Riddle is most concerned with the power of words to tell individual stories, particularly the stories of Northwest Indiana. He has been teaching a variety of English, theatre, developmental, and communication courses in higher education for over two decades while straddling two millennia. An Ivy-covered-Boiler-making-Hoosier through and through, he completed his undergraduate work at Indiana University, his graduate work at Purdue, and, currently, as Ivy Tech Community College’s Lake County Department Chair of English, he oversees the only three-location campus (East Chicago, Gary: Arts and Sciences, and Crown Point) English Departmental faculty and student groups in the largest singly-accredited statewide community college system in the United States.

Riddle has been honored for his contributions to education including the 2004 President’s Award, the 2005 Dedication to the Children of Gary Award, and both a 2013 and 2020 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence grant.

Most notably, Riddle's approach to virtual instruction was recognized at the 2020 Society of Innovators at Purdue Northwest Innovation Awards as among the best innovative practices in Northwest Indiana business, education, healthcare, and industry. Previous individual innovation award recipients include: P. Scott Bening, CEO of MonoSol; Congressman Peter J. Visclosky; and Scott Albanese, Founder and CEO of Albanese Confectionery Group.

Riddle has presented his methods as a part of Chautauqua in the Dunes 2020 at our Indiana Dunes State Park, at the ICEA Bridging the Gap(s) Virtual 2020 Conference, the 6th annual Indiana Commission for Higher Education Student Advocates Conference “Innovation: Today's Higher Education Imperative” in December 2020, the 2021 Minds, Means, and Material Conference on Writing and Well-Being hosted by the University of Nevada in early January 2021, AAC&U’s 2021 Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment, February 11-13, and at the 2021 OLC Innovate: Education Reimagined Conference in March of 2021.

Also, in May of 2015, Riddle portrayed Thomas Alva Edison for the cover of The Times, Innovation Special Edition, distributed to an over 90,000 strong readership. In addition to education, Riddle has an extended background in academic, community, and regional theatre. Significantly, Riddle was cast as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the legendary Star Plaza Theatre, alongside Michael Cunio –of the nationally touring Under the Streetlamp and Broadway’s Hairspray– as Jesus, and, also, with Marc Summers –of Nickelodeon’s Double Dare and Food Network’s Unwrapped– as Herod. Jared Riddle currently serves on the board of the Northwest Indiana Society of Innovators, as well as the Humanities Director for Chautauqua in the Dunes.