Dipalesa is the Head of Social Impact at Tshikululu, leading the team responsible for strategy design, implementation, and measurement across 25+ clients (investing more than R600 million per year). 

Prior to joining Tshikululu as a Social Investment Specialist in 2018, she worked in business and systems analysis in the financial services sector, research and innovation management for the development of the informal economy and grant management capacity building across the continent’s science funding systems. 

She has served as the Project Specialist responsible for the project management of the Southern African Research and Innovation