Sun Life Financial Sponsors of Teen-Lead Education Summit
Financial institution headquartered in Wellesley is the first title-sponsor for "Building a Grad Nation" summit.
For a Wellesley-based financial institution is putting money on the idea that American teenagers can stop other teens from dropping out of school. Sun Life Financial is signing on as the first title sponsor for the “Building a Grad Nation” summit, slated for Washington DC on Sunday, according to a press release issued this week. The America's Promise Alliance-lead summit asks the youth of the country to help solve what they call a "dropout crisis." Sun Life Rising Star Award winners Kimi Farrington (from South Florida, class of 2012), Kriss’Shon Day (Los Angeles, 2011) and David Buckholtz (Philadelphia, 2010) are among the 75 students, aged 13-25, from all over the country are coming together on Feb. 24. The three winners are also among …
