My primary interest is in the development of educational systems, resources and curriculums that enable learners of all ages and identities to create the worlds that they want to see, with playfulness and reflection on power embedded into the processes of change.
In 2025, I’m excited to be embarking on a new journey as UNECSO Fellow, joining 50 fellows from across the world in their new Intercultural Leadership Programme.
After studying Philosophy and later Management Studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, I started my journey as a classroom teacher, teaching philosophy and coaching hockey and football for 11 years, also leading the Institute of Service and Social Entrepreneurship at Sevenoaks School from its inception. Here, I worked with students and colleagues to develop models of critically informed active citizenship education through innovative curriculums, project frameworks and online courses, connecting with hundreds of schools, NGOs, social enterprises and institutions. I led the nationwide Schools Community Action Network involving over 120 schools. In 2021, I was selected as one of two UK finalists for the UNESCO-backed $1 million Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.
Alongside full-time teaching and completing a part-time PGCE and later MA in Education and International Development at UCL, since 2015, I have used free time to work with over 500 local educational Catalysts across rural Ghana and Kenya to develop the EduSpots network and Spot concept through a participatory model of organisational development, before being appointed formally as EduSpots’ full-time CEO in 2024 after an open recruitment process. Over 10,000 learners of all ages engage with future-ready education through 50 community-led spaces named ‘Spots’, situated across 12 regions of Ghana & Kenya, raising $1 million to support this work.
EduSpots won the 2018 British Council sponsored Tes International Award, was a finalist for the 2023 Their World Education Innovation Scale-Up Awards, and was selected for the Dovetail Impact Foundation’s Accelerator Portfolio in 2024. I am a 2024 Gratitude Network fellow, completed the 2023 Ashoka Changemakers Academy, and was shortlisted for the 2018 Unilever’s Young Social Entrepreneurs’ Award, 2021 Pearson Education Covid Hero and Learner Support Award and 2023 Big Change’s Big Education Challenge.
Hidden from view, I have M.E. and look to raise awareness for people with fatigue conditions and wider invisible disabilities, also challenging societal norms of what organisational leadership should and could look like.