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Just did a deeper search and found this works for now:

Just add show_admin_bar(true); to your functions.php in your theme.

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@shanebpdev – it worked! I used:

        <a href="<?php bp_activity_user_link(); ?>" class="nicename"> 
			@<?php global $activities_template;
			echo $activities_template->activity->user_nicename; 
			?>
        </a>

Thanks so much for your prompt help!!

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@shanebpdev – Should I be declaring a global variable somewhere first?

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Thanks @shanebpdev but neither of those worked?? Have you tried it?