Born in Kentucky and raised on the Wasatch Front, Gavin Doughty has over many years enjoyed the privilege of Utah’s many wonders, in both its natural beauty and one-of-a-kind mixture of people and culture. He grew up skiing at Snowbasin and running the hills of North Ogden.

A convert to the Catholic faith in high school from evangelical Protestantism, he has experienced in the last several years the seeming infinity of consolations that comes with membership in the Church—intellectually, aesthetically, interpersonally—and sought greater exploration of her treasures in his studies at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, CA, and the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 2024 with a BA in the Liberal Arts.

Feeling uniquely suited and called to engage and continually renew the learning that has brought his mind and soul so much clarity and enthusiasm, he is richly blessed to have been part of the faculty and mission of Chesterton Academy of Northern Utah since 2024, in the heart of the Church and of his home state.