Adler has over two decades of experience in higher education, with the last decade at the community college level. A fourth-generation writer/journalist, his great-great-grandfather, Bill Cuddy, was once the editor of the Oregonian at the turn of the 20th Century; his great-grandmother wrote a novel in the 1920s; and his two grandmothers were published writers.

He started at Evergreen Valley College in January 2024.