Cat Davison

Founder / CEO

Cat Davison is a social entrepreneur working and learning with grassroots educators across the world to ignite digitalised community-led education through participatory design methods.

After gaining a Top 5 in the Country A-level score and studying Philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Cat took a Part II in Management Studies at Cambridge’s Judge Business School, representing the university in hockey and football. Following this, alongside full-time teaching, Cat studied a PGCE with QTS at Buckingham University ahead of completing an MA in Education and International Development at UCL (part-time, distinction), with her dissertation exploring literacy as a social practice through applying postcolonial perspectives used as an example for following cohorts.

During 11 years of full-time teaching and sports coaching, including as Housemistress of Seldon House, Brighton College, and Director of the Institute of Service and Partnerships at Sevenoaks School, she developed a citizenship education network across the UK alongside creating innovative social leadership programmes, curriculums and online courses that embed to embed social impact and equitable education into UK schools. In 2021, she was selected as a finalist for the 2021 UNESCO-backed Varkey Foundation $1million Global Teacher Prize.

Today, having led the organisation voluntarily for 8 years since its founding alongside UK-based teaching, Cat is now full-time CEO/Founder of EduSpots, an NGO partnering with over 400 connected local changemakers who lead 50+ inclusive, tech-enabled community-led learning spaces (“Spots”) across Ghana, Kenya, and beyond. EduSpots’ model centres on local ownership, global citizenship, and dialogical learning, with Catalysts modelling inclusive, student-centred and interactive approaches that ripple into schools and communities.

EduSpots won the 2018 Tes International Award, a 2023 Theirworld Education Innovation Award Finalist, and was selected for the Dovetail Impact Foundation’s Africa Accelerator Portfolio. Cat is a 2025 UNESCO Youth for Peace Young Leader, 2024 Gratitude Network Fellow, 2023 Ashoka Changemakers Everywhere Academy participant, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Pearson Education Lockdown Hero and Learner Award, Big Change Big Education Challenge,  and 2018 Unilever Young Social Entrepreneur’s Award.