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The Reverend Debra W. Haffner is Co-founder and Executive Director of the Religious Institute. An ordained Unitarian Universalist minister, she is the endorsed community minister with the Unitarian Church in Westport, CT.

Dr. Kate Ott

Dr. Kate Ott is Deputy Director of the Religious Institute. She holds a doctorate in Christian Social Ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York and a Master of Religion degree from Yale Divinity School.

Jael Hernández-Vásquez

Jael Hernández-Vásquez is Executive Assistant and Office Coordinator for the Religious Institute. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics focusing on archaic Greek literature and society from Columbia University in May 2010.

Amanda Winters

Amanda Winters is the Scholar in Residence at the Religious Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, where she focused on the biopsychology of sexual orientation and gender identity.

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