She is the Vice Chancellor Karamoja Peace And Technology University.

Sr. Dominic Dipio is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education. She represents the African continent on this important governing body of the Holy See. She is a full professor of literature and film and the former Chair of the Department of Literature at Makerere University. She is a distinguished researcher and scholar. Some of the fellowships and academic awards associated with her are: The East African Commonwealth Fellowship, Fulbright, African Humanities Program (AHP), Cambridge-Africa Programme for Research Excellence (CAPREx), the Research Innovation Fund (Makerere), and the Leadership Academy – HERS-SA.

A Humanities scholar, Dipio has over 70 publications in her interdisciplinary research interests in: literature, film, folklore, ritual, popular culture, audience, and gender studies. In her researches, the dialogue between the city and the village, the old and the new, the past and the present, gender and the voices from the margins are often palpable. She is a filmmaker and critic who has participated as a juror at several international, regional and local film festivals such as in Berlin (Germany), Milan (Italy), Amiens (France), the Federation of Pan-African Filmmakers (FESPACO, Burkina Faso), and the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF).