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Producer Gillian Kantor began volunteering and later working for World Youth Day 2002 while working at the children鱿鱼视频app wildlife magazine Wild. After World Youth Day, she took a job as youth editor with Canada鱿鱼视频app national Catholic newspaper, The Catholic Register. She also kept in touch with the former World Youth Day director, Basilian Father Tom Rosica, who went on to head up Salt + Light TV.

Eventually Rosica and Joseph Sinasac, The Register鱿鱼视频app publisher and editor, struck a deal for Kantor to split her time between the newspaper and the TV station. Slowly, she shifted into a full-time position at Salt + Light.

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Kantor said she was reluctant at first to get involved in Catholic media.

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The connection between The Register and Salt + Light has continued to flourish. Kantor has done some freelance work for The Register since leaving the paper and Rosica contributes commentary pieces to the newspaper. The Register鱿鱼视频app Youth Speak News team holds an annual retreat weekend that includes a talk with Rosica as well as an introduction to Salt + Light and its staff.

As associate producer, Matthew Harrison assists in the production of programs and also is responsible for the web log, or blog, on the Salt + Light web site.

Harrison studied radio and television at Toronto鱿鱼视频app , then worked in broadcast news with . After three years in the seminary, he began working for Salt + Light last October.

鈥淚 wanted to be a part of the new evangelization ... and get the Gospel out and win hearts to Christ,鈥� said Harrison, one of the few Salt + Light staffers without any connection to World Youth Day 2002.

Producer Mary Rose Bacani made her way to Salt + Light as a result of 鈥渙ne of the moments in my life when I felt a call.鈥�

Nearing completion of her undergraduate program at in Santa Paula, Calif., Bacani was planning to attend law school. Yet she had always loved writing, and family and friends told her she had a perfect voice for radio and the 鈥減resence鈥� for TV.

So when she learned that the friend of a friend was working in the control room of a new Catholic television network in Toronto, she 鈥渏ust popped in鈥� at the Salt + Light studios 鈥� dressed in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt 鈥� to have a look around. Her unusual approach got the attention of Salt + Light management, and she was soon offered a job.

The child of a 鈥渞itualistically Catholic鈥� Filipino family, she previously had been a first-degree member of , a predominantly lay ecclesial movement under the spiritual direction of the . Bacani said she entered consecrated life in the order 鈥渘ot so much because I loved the Lord but because I wanted to love Him.鈥� Noting that the order鱿鱼视频app members are 鈥渟o in love with God,鈥� she said she found herself unable to 鈥済rasp the reality of consecrated life.鈥�

Although she finds working at Salt + Light 鈥渕uch more real,鈥� Bacani acknowledged that her experience in Regnum Christi 鈥渄efinitely got me on the road to prayer.鈥�

鈥淚 didn鈥檛 have a faith life before Regnum Christi,鈥� she continued. 鈥淭o survive at Salt + Light you have to have a strong faith life. As someone told me, you can鈥檛 give what you don鈥檛 have.鈥�

Bacani said she loves 鈥渂ringing images and words together creatively to touch people. It鱿鱼视频app part of my joy to tell Catholics they鈥檙e not alone. ... It鱿鱼视频app the art and the satisfaction that I made a difference.鈥�