Then Farhan switched to speaking Arabic.
"Then they just exploded with words," she said. "They were like, 'Oh, OK, so can you tell me this and that?'"
Farhan, who is set to attend the Medical College of Wisconsin in the fall, was working her new summer job as a vaccine educator for the Milwaukee Muslim Women's Coalition.
The coalition hired eight college students who speak languages common in Milwaukee's Muslim community such as Arabic, Somali, Rohingya and Urdu. They want to encourage hesitant people to get the vaccine while dispelling fears and misinformation about it.
The students will set up tables at common gathering places, such as mosques and ethnic grocery stores, and start conversations with people about their concerns. The Eid festival in mid-May at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee was the students' first event.