Social Responsibility Forum: Reimagine Diversity & Inclusion

Palesa Mabidilala

Country Managing Director

YGAP

https://www.linkedin.com/in/palesa-mabidilala-1b0bb014/

Palesa is currently the Country Director of Spark International (YGAP), a global not-for-profit with an innovative approach to poverty alleviation.

She is also the founder of Enzi Africa, a women owned organisation that is built on the philosophy that Africa holds great opportunity and has the potential to thrive even further if African solutions are applied to build the continent, particularly through sustainable entrepreneurship.

Palesa’s vision is to achieve sustainable economic growth through education and assisting entrepreneurs through the various stages of their business cycles.

Palesa has facilitated entrepreneurial workshops at Ernst & Young, as well as the Global Entrepreneurship Week – State of Entrepreneurship Summit. Palesa has also been featured at the Succeed Magazine and was invited to provide expert commentary on Khaya FM, the SABC1 Making Moves television programme as well as BBC Africa.





 

Wanjiku Ngare

A graduate of Georgetown University, Wanjiku Ngare has spent her early career in the social impact space within sustainability and international development. The desire to contribute to her local and global communities drives her academic and professional experiences. She is currently a student at Harvard University's Graduate school of Design in the Master of Urban Planning program, with a concentration in urban design. As a student, Wanjiku is challenging and expanding what it means to truly center the experiences of those at the margins and to value 'unlearning' as much as 'learning'. She believes that the choices we (as a collective) make in both spatial and nonspatial realms should be deliberately informed by an equity lens and historical perspective.