[7] In 2018, she served on a committee that recommended The Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church in the United States be changed to gender neutral language.

[10] From 2012 to 2013, Gafney wrote a series of articles for the Huffington Post on topics including sexual violence and civil rights.

[11][12] In June 2018, in response to Jeff Sessions quoting Romans 13 to defend President Donald Trump's policy of separating children from their parents at the border, Gafney wrote an article for Religion Dispatches titled "If We Did Use the Bible to Run the Country...."[13] In September 2020, Gafney participated in "Scholar Strike", an initiative inspired by the strikes by athletes to call attention to racial injustice in the US.

Gafney posted a video to the Scholar Strike YouTube page titled "White Supremacy in Biblical Interpretation.

"[15] In 2019, the Union of Black Episcopalians presented Gafney with the Anna Julia Haywood Cooper Honor Award for her scholarship and advocacy on matters of race and gender.