Sr. Alicia Torres is a member of the Franciscans of the Eucharist of Chicago. She works at the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels on Chicago’s West Side and serves as vocation director for her religious community. She studied theology at Loyola University Chicago (BA) and earned a Master of Divinity at Mundelein Seminary and a Master of Arts in teaching from Dominican University in River Forest. Sr. Alicia won the Food Network’s Chopped in 2015 and has contributed articles to several online and print media outlets, including First Things, Catholic News Service, and America Magazine. Since July 2021, she’s served on the Executive Team for the USCCB’s National Eucharistic Revival and is the managing editor of Heart of the Revival and producer of The Pulse.

Tanner Kalina is a member of the National Eucharistic Congress who currently lives with his wife in northern Colorado. He is the author of Aching For Greatness, published by Ave Maria Press, and the co-founder of the Saints Alive Podcast on Hallow. He has spoken at events all across the country, and his videos have accumulated millions of views worldwide. He has appeared in short video messages on Ascension Presents, and he has contributed other video projects to Ascension Press, EWTN, FOCUS, CatholicMatch, and YDisciple.