Rik Adamski has over ten years experience in the real estate and planning industries. Rik earned his Masters Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a BA in Sociology from the University of Cincinnati. Rik is a Senior Planner for Bowman-Melton, Associates, a Dallas-based firm which specializes in pedestrian and bicycle planning. Rik has worked in various capacities for the main offices of several nationally-influential planning organizations, including the American Planning Association, Congress for the New Urbanism, and Center for Neighborhood Technology. He most recently served as a Planner for the Fort Worth Police Department. He has been active in a wide variety of committees, including the Fort Worth Development Review Committee, Downtown Fort Worth Inc. Transportation and Education Committees, the Congress for the New Urbanism North Texas, the Walk! Fort Worth Technical Advisory Committee, and the Fort Worth Makerspace. Previous work experience included business management, journalism, sales, marketing and volunteer coordination. Rik was the Streetscape Team Leader on the embRACE theSTREET Better Block project, in Fort Worth’s Near Northeast Side. He is currently spearheading a large-scale “Incremental Urbanism” project for SteerFW, Mayor Betsy Price’s young leader initiative for the City of Fort Worth. He has guest lectured on the subject of Tactical Urbanism at University of Texas at Arlington.