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
Red wine in Buenos Aires, and other glories
I love, love, love Buenos Aires, with the food and the wine and the people and their outrageous accents, like characters in a Fellini film. Here I'm sitting at a beautifully laid table, awaiting the pouring of the vino. And there it is! Wine has left the bottle. The...
Eating, Cambodian style
Fantastic fresh foods everywhere we went, for so little money - this was what I found all over Cambodia. Bright red peppers spicing up veggies, cooked so lightly it was eating vegetables the way God intended. Lemongrass and greens flash cooked in oil and added to...
Waterlogged on Silk Island, Cambodia
I contacted a friend-of-a-friend who lives there as soon as I arrived, and she signed me up for a bike ride with a bunch of expats. We pedaled out of the downtown Phnom Penh area past traffic that is charitably described as terrifyingly chaotic. Motorbikes are the...