[3] She also started numerous non-profit organisations and has worked as a community volunteer and a project manager.
[7] At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Thompson was the youngest member of the US rowing team that competed in the women's eight event, where they finished in sixth place.
[10] Following her rowing career, Thompson started and ran numerous nonprofit programs around the world.
[1] She founded SCORE in South Africa to provide opportunities for black township children to participate in sport at the end of the apartheid era.
Thompson worked for WorldTeach in Namibia and piloted a program for Mercy Corps supporting refugees on the China–North Korea border.