By her own account, Natalie Impraim loves her comfort zone. “I am somebody who's very much, like, comfortable in my spaces,” she says. “And so doing things that are out of my comfort zone are often a little bit of a challenge for me.” But that didn’t stop Impraim, a master’s student in the International Human Rights Programs at DU’s Korbel School of International Studies, from traveling across the world to do an Africa Research Practicum in Nairobi, Kenya, where different cultural norms upended the American rituals and customs she’s used to. “Coming from the West, and coming from America, we have very specific standards of how we view how things should be, right? In terms of you know, ‘Everything has to be at this time, and meetings have to be this, and people have to do this, and everything needs to be organized,’” she reflects. “And realistically, in so many other contexts across the globe, things don't run like that.” Impraim wasn’t left to fl