Charly Adler
Lead Faculty, College Unbound
Prior to coming to the Met in 1999, Charly worked in both the profit and non-profit worlds in a wide range of careers ranging from director of an endowment fund to setting up a business in the Czech Republic to working on Jewish/Arab relations in Jerusalem. At age 38, Charly received his Masters of Teaching from Brown University and year later was an advisor at the original Met school in downtown Providence. Charly has been with Big Picture and the Met for much of the past decade as a principal, the Connector, and as a school coach. Charly left Big Picture in 2006 to go to South Sudan to start a school with the Dinka tribe. Though bullets and malaria eventually brought him back to the States, the school is finally getting built this year. In 2009, Charly returned full-time to BP when offered the challenge and opportunity to start up three schools in Newark, NJ. He is now working closely with the students and staff of College Unbound as Lead Faculty. Charly looks at learning as organized curiosity, and he is always guided by the great American philosopher, Yogi Berra, who said: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Charly’s one regret in life is that he was not born someone else.