Perry Farhat

Perry Farhat serves as Director of Diversity and Inclusion at RWJBarnabas Health System and is also the Administrative Director of the Babs Siperstein PROUD Center and the PROUD Gender Center of New Jersey. The Babs Siperstein PROUD Center is the first primary care facility in New Jersey specializing in the health care needs of the LGBTQIA+ community. During his tenure, the PROUD Center received the NJBIZ HealthCare Heroes Award in “Innovation,” and was honored as the National Association of Social Worker’s 2022 New Jersey Organization of the Year. Perry serves in Governor Murphy’s LGBTQ+ Taskforce and has been included in ROI-NJ’s 2022 and 2023 Healthcare Influencers List, ROI-NJ’s 2022 Diversity and Inclusion Influencer’s List, Insider New Jersey’s 2023 and 2024 LGBTQ 100 Power List, and NJBiz’s HealthCare Top 50 Power List.

Prior to joining RWJBarnabas, Perry served as an Assistant United States Attorney (“AUSA”) at the United States Department of Justice. Perry was assigned to the Government Fraud Unit where he prosecutes various white-collar crimes. Perry also served as the Office’s LGBTQ Special Emphasis Program Manager. Prior to serving as an AUSA, Perry prosecuted a wide-range of criminal cases at the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, also serving as community outreach liaison working with Somerset County’s most vulnerable communities.

Before these posts, Perry clerked for the Honorable Deborah Silverman Katz, A.J.S.C., in Camden. Perry is a graduate of Rutgers Law School, received a Master of City Planning from Boston University. While in Boston, he served as an outreach and advocacy coordinator with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, where he coordinated financial literacy and education programs, free tax preparation and free healthcare enrollment initiatives to Boston’s low- and moderate-income families. Perry obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University–New Brunswick.