title: Sherrie Silver
text: # Sherrie Silver
  
  Sherrie Silver is a Rwandan-born British choreographer who choreographed the music video for Childish Gambino's 2018 song This Is America. Her choreography won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography the same year.
  
  ## Early life and education
  
  Silver was born in 1994 to mother Florence Silver, one month after her father was killed in the Genocide against the Tutsi. Silver and her mother moved to London, England when she was aged five-years. She attended a Stagecoach Theatre Arts school and co-founded the Children of Destiny dance group when she was aged 11-years, before performing for Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
  
  Silver studied business and marketing at university.
  
  ## Career
  
  Silver choreographed the music video for Childish Gambino's song This Is America, which won the best choreography award at the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. Silver also appeared in the music video for the song.
  
  Silver is a United Nation's International Fund for Agricultural Development youth advocate and met Pope Francis in 2019 as part of that role.
  
  In 2023, Silver gave a dance lesson to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
  
  