Paul Van Slambrouck is a distinguished journalist and visionary. He began working for the Christian Science Monitor in 1976, and spent a lot of years covering South Africa.  From 1989 to 1997, he was with the San Jose Mercury News, where he was part of the news staff that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the earthquake. In 1997 he returned to the Monitor as San Francisco bureau chief and then became its editor-in-chief. He is currently an associate professor of Mass Communication at Principia College, a correspondent for the Monitor, a contributing editor for works & conversations and a volunteer with ServiceSpace.