Meet the CEO and Founder

Dr. Debi

Hello, I’m Debra (Debi) Jenkins, PhD. My clientele nicknamed me “Dr. Debi.”

For more than three decades, I have worked at the intersections of education, human development, psychology, leadership, and social justice, helping people examine how systems shape our experiences, relationships, opportunities, organizations, and communities.

As an educator, author, coach, speaker, facilitator, justice movement strategist, and founder of Share the Flame LLC™, my work brings together lived experience, scholarship, cultural wisdom, critical inquiry, and decades of practice across individual, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic contexts.

At the heart of my work is a question I have carried for decades:

How do we recognize the systems shaping us while cultivating the capacity to dismantle oppression and create what comes next?

Over the years, I have:

• Facilitated learning for more than 20,000 individuals
• Led more than 1,000 workshops, trainings, and presentations
• Worked across psychology, sociology, education, and human development
• Partnered with individuals, leaders, organizations, educational institutions, and communities nationally and internationally
• Worked across organizational roles and levels, from students, faculty, and staff to administrators, executive leaders, and institutional systems
• Developed original intellectual frameworks and bodies of work for examining identity, power, systems, justice, leadership, and human experience

My interdisciplinary foundation includes degrees in education (AAS and PhD), human development (BA and MA), and psychology (MS), along with continued study and credentialing across coaching, organizational psychology, leadership, social justice, neuroscience, somatic practice, and related fields.

But credentials alone are not what ground this work.

I believe:

“People deserve spaces where healing, justice, leadership, and humanity can coexist.”

And Share the Flame LLC™ is where that belief becomes practice, dismantling oppression, transforming systems, and cultivating what comes next.

Dr. Christal Jenkins McGirt MA, MBA, DLd (she/her)

Enterprise Strategy | Digital Transformation | Risk & Governance Leadership

Advisory Board Chairperson

With over 20 years of transformational leadership experience, Dr. Jenkins has driven strategic initiatives and managed large-scale change efforts across various industries. A proven leader in cross-functional environments, she has successfully led the design, development, and implementation of user-centric web and mobile platforms, delivering impactful solutions for both B2B and B2C partners globally.

Education

George Fox University

Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives (DLd)

Wake Forest School of Business

Truist School of Banking

SBGE at Seattle Pacific University

MBA Social and Sustainable Enterprise

Seattle Pacific University-Seminary

Master of Arts Business and Applied Theology

University of Washington

Bachelor of Science Human Centered Design and Engineering

Christopher (CJ) Jenkins II (he/him)

Senior Recruiter Hiring Technical Operations Engineers and Product Support Engineers 

Advisory Board Member 

CJ is a highly skilled Technical Sourcing Recruiter with over 13 years of experience in the industry. He exemplifies the qualities of a successful Recruiting professional in today's job market. His extensive knowledge of the business operations coupled with his keen attention to the needs of recruiting candidates is what contributed to his early and continued success. CJ is goal-oriented, and his proficiency in technical recruiting and candidate management sets him apart from others. He continues to be an influential force in the Technology landscape and takes pride in applying his successful Sourcing philosophy to every new career opportunity that comes his way.

Christian Jenkins MFA, MBA (he/him)

Business Coach | Network Marketer | Educator | Actor | Influencer | Creative 

Advisory Board Member

Born in Portland, OR and raised just 20 minutes across the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA, Christian continued north for college at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. Although he had trekked his way through Pre-Med/Microbiology studies, his plan of pursuing medical school was short lived. After watching his first graduate acting performance his Senior year in college, he knew that's where he was meant to be. Eventually, Christian graduated from the UW MFA Acting program and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. While in Los Angeles, Christian earned his M.B.A. from Purdue University Global. Christian also has obtained a Qualified Administrator license to use the IDI® from IDI, LLC. 

Known in his acting work as "Christian Telesmar" he currently serves as an elected representative on the Board for the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). In one of his most recent works is where he received a 2024 NAACP Theater Image Best Male Lead Actor Award Nomination for Large Theater playing the lead in August Wilson's Radio Golf. He also played Othello at Montana Shakespeare Company, Da'Ran in Leah Nanako Winkler's 'Kentucky' at East West Players, and FBI Agent Keene on FOX's Bones, NCIS: Los Angeles, 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star, Held and the Young and the Restless. 

Christian has taught BFA Entrepreneurship at the AMDA College and Conservatory and was formerly the Los Angeles Site Director for the college's High School Summer Conservatory, where 500+ performing artist travel from all over the world to L.A./N.Y.C. for a two-week intensive on the college campus. 

He is the creator of the Disparity Trap Board Game. "Disparity Trap" is the Socially Conscious Board Game (click on books and resources in the site menu bar to access) that provides an easy way to have the hard conversations around race & privilege in America, and how they impact society in Systemically Dominant (SD)™ and Systemically Non Dominant (SND)™ ways. The board game is like many of its kind, where your main goal is to live your life the way you choose; go to school, get a job, possibly build a family and a career. But in this game, you also step into someone else’s shoes to experience that life within an identity different from your own. Throughout the game, the dice rolls correlate your identity in the game to real life statistics. So like life, the dice are in your hands, but the odds are not.

He is excited to be fusing his many passions full-time - combining his love of the arts, business, and education together.​

*Systemically Dominant (SD)™   and Systemically Non- Dominant (SND)™" terminology and the IST of an ISM™ paradigm are trademarked and coined by Debra (Debi) Jenkins, PhD (1995-present) all rights reserved and used by permission.

Christina Jenkins, MFA | MA (she/her)

Holistic Nutrition-Somatic Wellness Coach 

Freelance Designer Media Digital Graphics | Communication Creative

Advisory Board Alternate

Christina Jenkins is a Creative with a BA in Liberal Arts Studies focusing on Business, Art Illustration and Psychology with a Minor in Dance and a master's in fine arts degree in Fashion Merchandising, a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology, and Christina has also obtained a Qualified Administrator license to use the IDI® from IDI, LLC. Christina is also a certified nutritionist and yoga instructor.

She works with clients seeking authentic change for a healthier well-being including those who are dealing with anxiety and trauma and are in need of natural beneficial wellness support. Her services, provide the following:  affirmation meditation, anxiety and trauma yoga, holistic nutrition counseling, tutoring for those dealing with anxiety, trauma, in need of ELL, dyslexic learning support, and or applied psychology. 

Christina is a freelance designer under her company Christina J Brand, LLC, an author of , The Traveling Vegan (see books and resources) about her nomad life to survive and how it created a green book to life. Christina is also the illustrator for the Children's book, "I Love My Kind of Brown" and designed the cover for the Daring to Dismantle book and journal.