“Healing is an Act of Communion”

— bell hooks

Welcome to Share the Flame LLC™

At Share the Flame, we provide trauma-informed, equity-centered, and culturally responsive education grounded in a social justice lens. Our work empowers individuals to navigate the impacts of oppression and equips organizations to create systems rooted in healing, equity, and sustainable change.

We offer insightful education, impactful mentoring, and transformative coaching for individuals seeking growth, resilience, and liberation. For organizations, we provide strategic systems-change consulting designed to build cultures where equity is practiced, not just promised.

We proudly partner with clients across corporate, academic, governmental, faith-based, nonprofit, and for-profit environments. Our support is especially focused on helping leaders cultivate workplaces where Black, Brown, and Indigenous employees are seen, valued, and supported—not only in policy, but in practice, relationships, and organizational culture.

Our mission is simple and bold:
to dismantle oppression—one layer in need of trauma-informed healing at a time—while building equitable systems, shaping futures, and restoring justice through culturally responsive education and healing-centered leadership.

So glad you're here!

Hi, I'm Dr. Debi—a name lovingly given by my clients. Feel free to explore more about me and the Independent Consultants who support our work below. Scroll down for my formal bio-options (long, medium and short depending on your organizations printing needs). Need a photo? Right-click on the photo above.

About Dr. Debi Jenkins, PhD

Founder & CEO, Share the Flame LLC™
ICF Credentialed Coach | Trauma-Supportive Educational Practitioner | History-Making Equity Architect

Who I Am

I am an educator, coach, and equity architect with over 30 years of experience transforming individuals and institutions through trauma-informed, justice-centered practice. My work lives at the intersection of healing, leadership, culture, and systems change, where I help people dismantle the layers of oppression standing between them and their fullest potential.

As a trauma survivor and thriver, I believe that healing—whether personal, organizational, or societal—is both a deeply personal journey and a collective act of liberation.

What I Believe

I hold a vision of a world where trauma-informed education serves as a liberating force, empowering people to thrive in identity, purpose, and legacy. My philosophy is rooted in the belief that:

• Healing and justice are interconnected.
• Equity must be intentionally designed, not assumed.
• Leadership is an act of care, courage, and consciousness.
• Systems can be transformed when individuals are equipped with tools for awareness, embodiment, and action.

My guiding mission is to educate, empower, and equip through transformational leadership, visionary teaching, and equity-centered systems that restore, uplift, and reimagine futures.

What I Do

Through coaching, consulting, teaching, and speaking, I help individuals and organizations navigate trauma at the intersections of identity, power, and injustice. My work integrates developmental, liberation, and transformational psychology into human-centered, equity-rooted practices.

I specialize in:

• Developmental & Executive Leadership Life Coaching
• Racialized Trauma and Minoritization Support
• Betrayal Trauma Healing for partners impacted by sexual betrayal (MPTM & ERCEM Models)
• Trauma-Informed + Healing-Centered Leadership
• Equity System Design & Sustainable Change Strategy

From personal transformation to organizational redesign, my approach bridges heart and strategy, compassion and accountability, healing and action.

My Approach

I bring a trauma-informed, culturally grounded, and justice-aligned lens to every space I enter. Clients describe my work as:

✨ Enlightening – bringing clarity to complex emotional and systemic experiences
✨ Restorative – creating room for healing, reflection, and reclamation
✨ Transformative – equipping people to shift from awareness to embodied change

Whether you are a trauma survivor, a leader, a practitioner, or an institution seeking change, I meet you where you are and help you build resilient resources, radical courage, and restorative connection.

My Background & Training

My academic journey spans Education (AA, PhD), Human Development (BA, MA), and Psychology (MS). I also hold numerous specialized certifications that support my work in trauma healing, executive leadership coaching, and equity systems transformation.

My career includes decades of service as an educator, mentor, consultant, and history-making architect of equity frameworks that have reshaped institutions locally, nationally, and internationally.

Who I Serve

I am honored to work with:

• Individuals seeking healing, clarity, or leadership growth
• Couples and partners navigating betrayal trauma
• Teams and organizations committed to equity and cultural transformation
• Schools, nonprofits, and institutions building trauma-informed systems
• Leaders ready to deepen their impact and expand their capacity

I serve clients locally, nationally, and internationally.

My Commitment to You

My work centers on the belief that trauma healing is both a personal and collective act of communion, rooted in cultural wisdom, community care, and historical truth-telling. I am committed to creating spaces where you feel seen, empowered, and equipped to step into your next chapter with confidence and grounding.

Let’s Build a Future Rooted in Healing, Equity, and Possibility

Learn more or connect with me at www.shareflame.com.

Long Bio

Debra Debi Jenkins, PhD
Founder & CEO, Share the Flame LLC™
ICF Credentialed Coach | Trauma-Supportive Educational Practitioner | History-Making Equity Architect | Transformative International Speaker

With more than 30 years of experience as an educator and leader in sustainable systems change, Dr. Debi Jenkins stands as a powerful symbol of what becomes possible when deep scholarship meets strategic action and purpose. Her life’s work centers on dismantling oppression one layer in need of healing at a time—building equitable systems, shaping liberated futures, and restoring justice through trauma-informed education and healing-centered leadership.

Dr. Debi envisions a world where people are equipped through trauma-informed education as a liberating force—one that strengthens identity, activates purpose, and secures legacy. Her mission is to educate, empower, and equip individuals and institutions through transformational leadership, visionary teaching, and equity-centered systems that uplift, restore, and reimagine what’s possible.

A trauma survivor and thriver, Dr. Debi is committed to helping people and organizations navigate the complexities of trauma at the intersections of identity, power, and injustice. She believes that healing, whether personal, institutional, or societal, is both a deeply personal journey and a collective act of transformation.

As an award-winning social justice educator, author, and international speaker, she draws from developmental, liberation, and transformational psychology to guide clients from awareness into embodied, sustainable change. Her expertise is supported by degrees in Education (AA, PhD), Human Development (BA, MA), and Psychology (MS), along with numerous specialized certifications integrated into her coaching, consulting, and mentoring practice, including:

• Developmental & Executive Leadership Life Coaching

• Racialized Trauma and Minoritization Support

• Betrayal Trauma Healing for Partners Impacted by Sexual Betrayal (MPTM & ERCEM Models)

Clients—from individuals to institutions—describe her work as enlightening, restorative, and transformative. Whether supporting personal growth, organizational healing, or justice-centered transformation, Dr. Debi helps build resilient resources, radical courage, and restorative connection through a trauma-informed, equity-rooted lens.

She serves clients locally, nationally, and internationally.
Learn more at www.shareflame.com .

Medium Bio

Debra Debi Jenkins, PhD is the Founder and CEO of Share the Flame LLC™, an ICF credentialed coach, trauma-supportive educational practitioner, history-making equity architect, and transformative international speaker.

With over 30 years of experience in education and sustainable systems change, she is known for dismantling oppression “one layer in need of healing at a time” through trauma-informed education and healing-centered leadership.

A social justice educator, author, and award-winning speaker, Dr. Debi blends developmental, liberation, and transformational psychology to help people and organizations move from awareness into embodied change. Her mission is to equip individuals and institutions with the tools to thrive in identity, purpose, and legacy through equity-centered and trauma-informed practices.

Dr. Debi holds advanced degrees in Education, Human Development, and Psychology and integrates her specialized certifications into her work in:

• Developmental & Executive Leadership Life Coaching

• Racialized Trauma and Minoritization Support

• Betrayal Trauma Healing (MPTM & ERCEM Models)

A trauma survivor and thriver herself, she believes that healing—personal or systemic—is a collective act of transformation. Her clients describe her work as restorative, courageous, and deeply transformational.
Learn more at www.shareflame.com .

Short Bio 

  Debra Debi Jenkins, PhD is an award-winning social justice educator, ICF credentialed coach, and Founder of Share the Flame LLC™. A transformative international speaker and equity architect, she specializes in trauma-informed leadership, racialized trauma healing, and systems change. With 30+ years of experience, Dr. Debi helps individuals and organizations build resources to support identity, equity, and embodied transformation.

Learn more at www.shareflame.com .

Check out the awesome team of Independent Consultants who come along side Share the Flame LLC™ to support our clientele!

CHRISTINA JENKINS BA, MFA, MA (she/her)

VIRTUAL HOLISTIC NUTRITION-SOMATIC WELLNESS COACH

VIRTUAL MEDIA/DIGITAL GRAPHICS/ COMMUNICATIONS CREATIVE 

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 Masters 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 and who has also obtained a license to use the IDI® from IDI, LLC. 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. She is the owner of Holistic and Whole, LLC. Her Holistic and Whole services, provides the following services: 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.  Share the Flame LLC utilizes Holistic and Whole LLC to provide virtual wellness opportunities for our clients to experience holistic health, nutrition and wellness as a part of their one on one coaching experiences including the racialized trauma healing experience. Besides supporting as our Wellness Coach, Christina supports our customers as Share The Flame LLC's™ Communications Manager. Christina resides in New York working as a freelance designer under her company Christina J Brand, LLC, an author of the 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".

  CHRISTIAN JENKINS MFA, MBA (he/him)

VIRTUAL BUSINESS COACH

VIRTUAL NETWORKING/MARKETING CREATIVE

Born in Portland, OR and raised just 5 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 in and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. His most recent work consists of playing 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, Held and the Young and the Restless. 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. He teaches BFA Entrepreneurship at the AMDA College and Conservatory and was 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 excited to be fusing his many passions full-time - combining his love of art, business, and education together.​ Share the Flame LLC™ consults with Christian Jenkins' next level infusion of professional, creative, and executive level brilliance to support our company's corporate, non-profit, and academic clientele's business and marketing service needs. Also known in his creative circles and work as "Christian Telesmar" he is also 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.

*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. 

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