Cat Davison

Founder / CEO

Cat Davison is a philosophy teacher turned social entrepreneur working and learning with grassroots teachers across the world to ignite digitalised community-led education through participatory design methods. She has degrees in Philosophy, Management, Education & International Development from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and University College London. She holds a PGCE with QTS, with 11 years of classroom teaching and sports coaching, including at senior leadership level, alongside 14 years of educational experience in the Ghanaian context.

During her teaching career, she developed a citizenship education network across the UK alongside social leadership programmes, curriculums and online courses, also developing a school-wide approach to embedding social change education as Director of the Institute of Service and Partnerships at Sevenoaks School which was shortlisted for two national Tes awards. In 2021, she was one of two UK teachers selected as a Finalist for the 2021 $1million Global Teacher Prize.

Today, Cat is fully committed to 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’ unique community-led model centres on local ownership, active citizenship, and peer learning, with Catalysts modelling inclusive, student-centred and interactive approaches that ripple into schools and communities. EduSpots is a part of the 2026 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, 2024-2026 Dovetail Impact Foundation Africa Accelerator Portfolio and Theirworld Education Innovation Award Scale-up Programme.

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.