Rev. Debra W. Haffner

Director
Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing

Reverend Debra W. Haffner is the director of the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing.  Rev. Haffner is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and an endorsed community minister with the Unitarian Church in Westport, Connecticut.

Rev. Haffner was the chief executive officer of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) from 1988-2000.  She has served as the director of education for the Center for Population Option, the director of community services for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, a special assistant for the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Resource Center coordinator of the Population Institute.

An accomplished author, Rev. Haffner has published nine chapters in books and encyclopedias, more than 70 articles in professional journals, 14 monographs, and numerous pamphlets for the general public.  She has given speeches and conducted training workshops in Brazil, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Israel, Uruguay, Guatemala, England, Spain, and the Netherlands.

Rev. Haffner appears regularly in the national media.  She is frequently quoted in the New York Times and Washington Post, and has appeared on such programs as “Nightline,” “PrimeTime Live,” “20/20,” “Dateline,” and “Oprah.”