The 17th annual Soup & Hope speaker series returns to Sage Chapel to feature Cornell staff, faculty, and student storytellers sharing their experiences of overcoming life’s challenges while attendees enjoy a free meal of soup and bread.

The series is open to the public and spotlights speakers and stories of hope. The six talks in the series will be held on Thursdays through March 28, noon-1 p.m. Events are free and do not require registration.

Soup provided by Cornell Catering is available starting at noon; talks begin at 12:15 p.m. and each event concludes around 12:45 p.m. While the series is held in Sage Chapel, the events are not affiliated with a religious organization.

• January 25 – Foula Dimopoulos 
• February 8 – Joseph Margulies 
• February 22 – Joanne Wang ‘24 
• March 7 – Subash Bhandari 
• March 21 –  Adrian Durant 
• March 28 – Wahieñhawi “Hawi” Hall

March 7 Speaker: Subash Bhandari 
Subash is a third year PhD Student in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering. Born and Raised in the foothills of Nepal, Subash came to the United States to pursue his undergraduate education at Wichita State University in Kansas.

For Soup and Hope, Subash will share his experience growing up in a boarding school in Kathmandu, far away from his family in the rural village of Nepal, for 8 long years. He believes his unique upbringing in the boarding school set him up with bigger aspirations in life. Subash will further reflect upon his struggles being in a land far away from his family during his undergraduate years in America and the tenacity that led him to Cornell.