Christy Kam began her dance career as a ballerina, training and performing with both the Columbia City Ballet in Columbia, SC as well as the Royal Academy of Dance school in Portland, OR. With both companies, she performed in many shows both as a core dancer as well as with a soloist in addition to her teaching schedule.

Upon moving to Philadelphia in 2000, she started her partner dancing career, winning many titles with Pan Thomakos, including the USA Dance nationals: Adult Championship Rhythm winner, 9 Dance (Rhythm and Smooth categories combined) runner up, as well as Pre-Championship 3rd place Latin in 1997 and winning both the Adult Championship Rhythm title as well as the Adult 9 Dance Championship the following year in 1998.

From there, she competed in professional rhythm, smooth, and 9 dance with Cedric Jacobsen. Additionally, she competed in salsa and bachata competitions and toured around the US competing, performing, and teaching with Henri Velandia as well as qualifying for the world salsa championships.

She has also danced rhythm with Jameson Kilburn, making finals in professional rising star rhythm. Jameson was also her partner for hustle and triple threat (hustle, salsa, and west coast swing), where they have won many titles, most notably winning the first place title in the open professional world hustle championships, professional strictly hustle, and professional triple threat in 2014.

In 2014, she started competing with Clive Stevens (winning 3rd place at Worlds 2014 in the pro-pro category). In 2015, Clive and Christy competed both the showcase division winning 1st place at worlds as well as in classic division, winning 2nd place at worlds. Additionally, they earned a gold and two silver medals at the 2015 World games in the couples divisions as well as one silver medal in the world games for Christy’s line dancing. At Worlds 2015, Christy won both the classic and showcase divisions of advanced line dance, qualifying her to compete in the superstars line dance category. She is a current competitor in Masters and Superstars as well as a journeyman judge on the UCWDC circuit.

Her extensive knowledge base across many types of dance styles, extensive teaching experience, and sense of humor are what her students like most about taking lessons from her.