Team Bios
Kerry M. Thompson
Kerry Thompson is the Founding Executive Director of Silent Rhythms Inc. Kerry has been a Latin dancer since 2002 performing in Barcelona, Boston, Havana, Honolulu, Kigali, Miami, New York City, Paris, and Stamford.
She was a founding member of the Boston Rueda Dance Company and previously a member of the MetaMovements Dance Company. She continues a longstanding collaboration with MetaMovements, teaching at the Salsa In The Park summer series. She has produced three popular series, Inclusion 101, Inclusive Movements, and Inclusive Creativity. She has pioneered dance inclusion programs such as the Salsa-ASL class and Dance-ASL project.
At a young age, Kerry was diagnosed as profoundly deaf then diagnosed a few years later with Ushers’. Aside from her dance commitments, Kerry is a renowned global inclusion expert and human rights changemaker, having provided guidance to the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and other government agencies and philanthropic organizations, advancing rights for persons with disabilities. Kerry was named a 2020 Visiting Artist for the Harvard Dance Center and a 2014 Marshall Memorial fellow. She has received a Master’s degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology.
Miles Thompson
Miles is a guide dog who joined our team in 2022, supporting our Executive Director, Kerry Thompson. He graduated from the Leader Dogs for the Blind program in 2022 with a dog-ree in Leadership. He is a natural Meringue dancer, but when it comes to Salsa, he has four left paws. Although, he incorporates a lot of salsa moves when he needs to go outside.