"This honor would not have happened to me without Colorado Mountain College and Dave Harmon, the professor who took me to Nicaragua and exposed me to understandings that have changed my life."
Dave Kolstad transferred to the University of Colorado and was named one of five students nationwide to receive the Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award in 1999. He was also named the winner of the Jacob Van Ek Award, the highest honor given in the College of Arts and Sciences for academic excellence and outstanding contributions to the community at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
