Milan and Misha are the joint children of Omid Kordestani and Bita Daryabari in the U.S.

Daryabari began focusing her career on philanthropy where in 2008 she founded the Bita Daryabari Endowment for Persian Literature and Poetry with a contribution of $2.5 million. The same year, she created a $6.5 million Bita Daryabari Endowment in Persian Letters at Stanford. In 2011, she founded a community organization in California called the Pars Equality Center where she and the members of the organization assist immigrants living in the United States. In 2015 she opened a branch in San Jose, called the Daryabadi Community Center to extend the services to the Farsi speaking community. Additional endowments have included $2 million for the Shahnama Project at Pembroke College in 2013, a $1.5 million gift to the University of California, Davis in 2015 to broaden its Persian studies program, and $5 million to UC Berkeley in 2016 for the study of Iranian languages, literature, arts, and culture. Daryabari is the founder of the Unique Zan Foundation, a social service organization that works with academic institutions and organizations for women in the Middle East. In 2016, UC Berkeley announced the Presidential Chair in Studies after her name.

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