Rachel Kessler is a TikTok influencer known as @TheNerdyPriest. An "exvangelical", she is the rector of Harcourt Parish Episcopal Church and the campus chaplain of Kenyon College. She earned her PhD from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She has been published in the Religion & Literature journal and has written for online magazines such as Fidelia and The Wild Word. Kessler lives in Gambier, Ohio.