Kevin F. Adler, Bet­ter­Grads' Exec­u­tive Direc­tor and Founder—a grad­u­ate stu­dent, non­profit direc­tor, pub­lic ser­vant, and social entrepreneur—is com­mit­ted to improv­ing the edu­ca­tional and career oppor­tu­ni­ties for America’s youth.

Kevin is the Com­mu­nity Man­ager at nuRe­sume, an online net­work for stu­dents to achieve career suc­cess. In 2009, Kevin com­pleted his Mas­ter of Phi­los­o­phy degree in Soci­ol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Cam­bridge. His dis­ser­ta­tion on the health and vibrancy of com­mu­nity life fol­low­ing a nat­ural dis­as­ter was awarded top hon­ors of “distinction.”

Prior to Cam­bridge, Kevin attended Occi­den­tal Col­lege, where he was the Ben­jamin H. Cul­ley Award recip­i­ent (out­stand­ing grad­u­at­ing senior), Theodore R. Mitchell Endowed Scholar, Jane Jaque­tte Ser­vice Award recip­i­ent, the 2007 Stu­dent of the Year in the Pol­i­tics Depart­ment, and the 2006 National Stu­dent Diplo­mat Essay Com­pe­ti­tion Award winner.

While at Occi­den­tal, Kevin was involved in edu­ca­tion as a researcher, men­tor, and entre­pre­neur. Kevin con­ducted a com­pre­hen­sive assess­ment of Career Tech­ni­cal Edu­ca­tion pro­grams in Los Ange­les County pub­lic high schools as an intern at the Cal­i­for­nia Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion. Kevin also served as a big brother to “at risk” mid­dle school stu­dents and started a read­ing pro­gram for stu­dents at a local ele­men­tary school with 95% reduced price lunch.

And two weeks before grad­u­at­ing from Oxy, while sit­ting in church, Kevin scrib­bled down his ideas for a “Col­lege 101” men­tor­ing pro­gram that formed the con­cept for BetterGrads.