Tarishi Jain, a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, was among the 20 foreigners who were killed in the terrorist attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Friday.
A 19-year-old Indian national, Tarishi graduated from the American International School in Dhaka, before joining UC Berkeley in 2015. At Berkeley, Tarishi was a member of the International Student Advisory Board. She also helped create EthiCal Apparel, a clothing line – the profits of which are reinvested to provide micro-loans to low-income people who lack access to banking services.
Mourning her death, Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of UC Berkeley, sent a message on Saturday to the campus community.
Dirks expressed loss, promised help to Tarishi’s family, as well as to the faculty, students and staff of UC Berkeley.
The message reads as follows:
Dear Campus Community,
It is with a heavy heart that I write to inform you of the tragic death of one of our students, Tarishi Jain, a UC Berkeley student killed in the terrorist attacks in Bangladesh yesterday.
Tarishi and seven other students were completing internships with UC Berkeley’s Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies.
A graduate of the American International School in Dhaka, Tarishi came to UC Berkeley in 2015 and was intending to major in economics.
We have been in contact with her family to provide assistance in any way that we can and are working closely with our other students there to assist them in staying safe and determining whether they leave the area.
Our counseling services staff and Employee Assistance services are available to support for faculty, students and staff on campus as we mourn this tragic loss.
The ASUC (Associated Students of University of California) will be planning a vigil and memorial for the campus and will share details soon.
On behalf of our entire campus, we send our deepest condolences to her family and friends and to all the other families who have suffered such a devastating loss.
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