One of the anti-ICE agitators arrested outside Delaney Hall in New Jersey is a former adjunct lecturer at lefty Hunter College, The Post can reveal.
Aida Riddle, 36, of Brooklyn, who bills herself as a “black and queer emerging fiction writer” was busted for assaulting a law enforcement officer at the Newark facility on June 3, according to the Newark Police Department.
Riddle taught at the taxpayer funded Upper East Side institution while she was a MFA candidate from 2023 to 2024, and is now working as a freelance writer pursuing poetry, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Aida wrote an episode of the Sam Raimi-produced television series “50 States of Fright” which premiered on platform Quibi in 2020, according to her LinkedIn profile, though she was not credited on the shows IMDB page.
The wannabe artist also contributed to little-known literary publications Expat Press and Orca Literary magazine including an anti-Republican piece entitled “I am Eating Myself Alive.”
“’Watch as the GOP eats their own entrails.’ I think of a snake cannibalizing its own skinny tail…a scaly violence that lives into eternity… I am next in line,” the 2021 story in Orca read, according to an X post.
Her father, Anthony Riddle, is a media executive who has worked for a variety of left-leaning communications hubs including as senior vice president of BRIC Arts in Brooklyn and stints for the Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Atlanta’s People TV, and the Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, according to an online biography.
Riddle, faces charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest, also worked as an outreach associate at the Brooklyn Public Library where she wrote letters and made book suggestions to inmates, according to her LinkedIn.
She declined to comment.
Hunter recently made news after putting out a job description for a professorship of “Palestinian Studies” that critics said targets Israel over “settler colonialism, genocide,” “apartheid,” and “infrastructure devastation.”
