Hello, my name is Keri Culver
I am an international evaluator and writer.
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Through EvalMundi I evaluate foreign aid programs worldwide. I also provide training in evaluation, field research, ethics, and other topics. Learn More…
My latest writing
Marshmallows and other metaphors
I'm swimming in work but treading water as best I can. I can't wait to leave for Madrid but in the meantime I'm going to pump out seven reports and annexes, probably 1500 pages of hard-hitting sociological analysis! BOOM! But I'm telling the whole thing out of order....
Bring me that ol’ NaNoWriMo talent, any day
From an interview with a literary agent in the fascinating online magazine Guernica, about the agent's beliefs about talent. He says he means to provoke with the following statement: “I frankly think that initiatives like National Novel Writing Month are insulting to...
Virginia Woolf, Downton Abbey, and damned statistics
I'm a bit late getting to this piece of news, but I just read a story about Virginia Woolf's suicide. I've never read any of her work. I need to catch up. (Pics from Getty, via the BBC article link.) Woolf and her husband criticized Victorian rules. I saw the...