Debra HaffnerDebra W. Haffner is the director of a new organization, the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing. She was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister in May 2003.Ms. Haffner was the chief executive officer of SIECUS, the Sexality Information and Education Council of the United States, from 1988 through May 2000. Under her leadership, SIECUS tripled in staff size, increased its annual budget revenues more than six fold, and opened professional offices in New York and Washington, DC. During Ms. Haffner's tenure at SIECUS, she created the Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing; the National Coalition to Support Sexuality Education; the Commission on Adolescent Sexual Health; and the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Kindergarten - Grade Twelve.Prior to joining SIECUS, Ms. Haffner served as the Director of Education for the Center for Population Options; the Director of Community Services for Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington; a Special Assistant in the U.S. Public Health Service; and the Resource Center Coordinator of the Population Institute.Ms. Haffner is the author of From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children, which was called by Kirkus Review "the very best kind of guide for being a better parent," and Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens, which the American Library Association's Booklist says, "offers solid advice and resources to parents, who will greatly appreciate her candor." She is also the co-author of a college sexuality textbook and "What I've Learned About Sex." Ms. Haffner has also 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 conducted speeches and training workshops in Brazil, Venezuela, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Israel, Uruguay, Guatemala, the Eastern Caribbean, England, Spain, and the Netherlands.Ms. Haffner's work has been honored by the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the Association for the Advancement of Health Education, and the Society for Adolescent Medicine. She received the Connecticut Sexuality Educator of the Year Award in May 2002.Ms. Haffner appears regularly in the national media. She is frequently quoted in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and has appeared on such programs as Nightline, PrimeTime Live, 20/20, Dateline, Crossfire, Good Morning America, Oprah, and the Today Show.Ms. Haffner has a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, a Masters of Public Health from the Yale University School of Medicine and an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. In 1996-97, she was a Research Fellow at the Yale Divinity School. She is also a Fellow of the Society for Adolescent Medicine.Ms. Haffner has been married for 20 years and is the proud mother of a 17-year-old daughter and a nine-year-old son. Read More Read Less