Dan Piatkowski is an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Dan received his PhD in Design and Planning from the University of Colorado Denver, where he was the recipient of a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF-IGERT) in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure and a member of the Active Communities Transportation Research Group. He also holds a Master's of Urban and Environmental Planning and a Bachelor's in English (both from Arizona State University).