Dilafruz Khonikboyeva is the Founding Executive Director of the Home Planet Fund, the latest tool in
the Patagonia philanthropic ecosystem. Ms. Khonikboyeva was previously a political appointee of
the US Biden-Harris Administration, spent five years with the Aga Khan Development Network, and
eight years responding to conflict and climate crises.

Ms. Khonikboyeva is a transformational conflict expert, focused on civil war, climate and resource
conflicts, and storytelling.

Ms. Khonikboyeva was selected by the US presidential centers and libraries of George W. Bush,
William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson as a 2019 Presidential Leadership
Scholar. Her story of immigrating to the US from the civil war in Tajikistan and President Bush’s
painting of her were featured in the bestselling book, “Out of Many, One - Portrait’s of Americas Immigrants”

Dilafruz is originally from Khorog, Tajikistan and is Indigenous Pamiri.