Bita daryabari biography of mahatma gandhi

Iranian-American philanthropist, entrepreneur, computer scientist

Bita Daryabari (Persian: بیتا دریاباری; born April 6, 1969, in Tehran) is an Iranian-Americanphilanthropist, entrepreneur and computer scientist.^[1][2] She is the founder of several community organizations which focus on Persian immigrants in society and arts in the United States.^[3] Daryabari has provided financial assistance to various educational institutions for research on the Iranian studies in higher education, including endowments to Stanford, Pembroke College, U.C.

Davis, and U.C. Berkeley. She has a named Chair at U.C. Davis in Persian Language and Literature and at U.C. Berkeley in Iranian Studies.

Early life and education

Bita Daryabari was born in Tehran, Iran.^[4] Her father was a dentist and her mother was a housewife.

She grew up reading Persian books, including those of the scholar Rumi. Daryabari moved to the US from a war-stricken Iran