Dr. Danielle Elizabeth Tumminio Hansen (born 1981) is a writer, intellectual, practical theologian, and Episcopal priest whose expertise is in the intersection of spirituality and cultural life.

She was raised in the Episcopal Church and sang in the girls' choir at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Garden City, which she credits for giving her extensive biblical, theological, and musical training at an early age.

Tumminio Hansen is a three-time graduate of Yale University, where she studied with prominent theologians Marilyn McCord Adams, Emilie Townes, Miroslav Volf, and Serene Jones.

[4] She pursued doctoral studies at Boston University, beginning in 2008 under the direction of Shelly Rambo and Bryan Stone, where she researched trauma, feminist theology, reproduction, and restorative justice.

The textbook applies Judith Herman's three stages of healing along with Tumminio Hansen's training as a restorative justice practitioner to offer spiritual care providers a set of tools for understanding and responding to trauma.

She identifies gaps posed by the most commonly used words and offers an alternative definition of rape as, "Acts of power, using sex, that violate agency, body, and desire.

Tumminio Hansen proposes that surrogacy should be a mutual decision made between surrogate and intended family that supports the identity construction of each party and any resulting children.

She has said that in order to consider whether they truly are heretical, Christians must analyze whether the writings of J. K. Rowling violate a number of core theological doctrines, including sin, evil, sacrifice, and grace.

She later used that sustained discussion as the basis for her first book, God and Harry Potter at Yale: Teaching Faith and Fantasy Fiction in an Ivy League Classroom.

Her work has appeared in publications including CNN's Belief Blog,[14] The Guardian,[15] The Christian Century,[16] State of Formation,[17] and the Yale Daily News.