Aya Farhat

At Johns Hopkins, Aya Farhat is a lecturer in the MA in Communication program.

As the CEO of Social Intellect, which she co-founded with Dr. Jeremy Grossman in 2020, Farhat offers boutique-style digital marketing services focused on content creation, paid media management, influencer management, and digital strategy. She is also the CEO and founder of Tend, an online fitness and wellness app. When Farhat isn’t building brands on social or helping 1-1 clients launch and grow their businesses, she can be found at her local yoga studio, reading a good book, or taking her cat, Dr. Frankenstein, for a walk around her D.C. neighborhood.

Farhat earned her PhD in Communication, with an emphasis in Political Rhetoric, from the University of Maryland in 2023. Her dissertation examined the rhetoric of expertise and U.S. abortion law. After beginning her undergraduate studies in pre-med at Baylor University, she went on to study Communication and earned an MA from Baylor in 2018.