Celebrating its 16th year at Cornell, the 2023 Soup & Hope speaker series returns to Sage Chapel with stories that connect to the university’s new commitment as a health-promoting campus. Talks will reflect speakers’ diverse cultural, religious, political, and philosophical beliefs and experiences of hope.

Speaker: Julie Paige

Julie Paige came to Cornell as a Residence Hall Director in 1987, moving here from Boston where she lived for 15 years. Julie never expected to stay in Ithaca and told people her first year that she planned to move back to Boston in two years.  Now 35 years at Cornell, Julie believes every choice she has made in her professional career brought her where she is today, including a recent trip to India to attend a friend’s wedding. In this Soup and Hope – entitled Will I ever learn not to say no? – Julie will share this professional and personal journey that led to that trip.  Currently Julie serves as the Director of Off-Campus, Cooperative and Graduate Living.  In Julie’s life outside of work, there is nothing she enjoys more that spending time with her friends and family both in Ithaca and around the Northeast. She also is an avid Boston sports fan of the Red Sox, Patriots and Celtics, and a fan of Broadway musicals. She has a wide pallet and loves trying foods from around the world.

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