Biography
Debra Haffner was born in 1954 in Morristown, New Jersey. She attended Norwalk, Connecticut public schools, and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1975. Ms. Haffner received her Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. She also has a Masters of Public Health from the Yale University School of Medicine and received her undergraduate education at Wesleyan University. She was a Research Fellow at the Yale Divinity School in 1996-97. Haffner received a Doctor of Public Service, H.C., from Widener University in 2011.
Haffner has taught at Yale Divinity School, Meadville Lombard Theological School, Pacific School of Religion, and continues as an adjunct lecturer/visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary. She has authored numerous works, including several guides for congregations on sexuality.
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