Spotlight on Adam Mastalir

13 Questions with Adam



1.    What are you listening to/reading these days?

Mostly books on human behavior and habit

2.    What is the greatest challenge you have had to overcome in your life thus far?

Going back to school full-time to get my degree in Engineering while still working and balancing my responsibilities as a husband and father. 

3.    What is the one thing you cannot resist? (food/dessert/candy/etc.)

Ice cream

4.    What is your greatest fear?

Leaving this world in a condition worse than it was before me

5.    Where is your favorite place to be?

Anywhere on the isthmus

6.    What is your favorite thing to do?

Draw architectural floor plans

7.    Where is the best place you’ve traveled to and why? 

United Kingdom because I had the opportunity to be a student ambassador and meet with diplomats and local families to learn how our choices impact others and our relationships with one another.

8.    What’s the weirdest job you’ve ever had?

Raking seaweed by hand from the shoreline

9.    Who is your biggest inspiration?

Outside of my wife and daughter who inspire me every day, my biggest inspiration is my close friend Alex.

10.    What’s the coolest (or most important) trend you see today?

The coolest and most important trend I see today is the continued development of autonomous driving. 

11.    What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?

The internet, personal computers, and cell phones. It’s hard to describe but there are things about life before the internet that current and future generations will likely not experience and appreciate unless it were to go away for an extended period of time. 

12.    What would you do (as a volunteer) if you weren’t doing this?

I would be most likely be expanding my work as an educational volunteer. 

13.    What do you think people should know about the Madison Trust?

The Trust offers a wide variety of opportunities for members to be directly involved in the promotion and support of historic preservation in Madison and contiguous cities. It is the continued support of our members that allows the Trust to make positive and lasting impacts on our community. From walking tours to activism, the trust offers a little of something for everyone regardless of their background or experience with historic preservation.