Farhat Ahmad was a sheriff’s deputy in Madison, Wisconsin until 2006, when he moved to Atlanta to pursue a career in education. Farhat has been teaching for over a 15 years and is currently the director of MAPs, (Marietta Alternative Placement and Services) for the Marietta City Schools district in Georgia. In 2015 he won the Georgia Governor’s Award for Innovative Teaching, which includes a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In the summer of 2017 he earned another grant from the governor’s office for his work in individualized and blended learning and was chosen as a Top Teacher by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Mr. Ahmad holds a Bachelor’s in English and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a Master’s in Secondary Education from Georgia Southern University.
