Mary Swanson is the Program Director for the Office for Scholarship and Fellowship Advising at Colorado State University (CSU), her alma mater. After she received a BA in history, Mary attended graduate school at CSU and the University of Notre Dame where she studied the history of the American West and environmental law. Although she has called Colorado home for 20 years, she is a native of Minneapolis, MN and loves to spend time in the land of 10,000 lakes.