Katlyn Grasso is a recent graduate from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Fresh out of undergrad, she’s already kicking butt, taking names, and empowering young women nationwide.

Grasso, who grew up a Girl Scout in Hamburg, New York, received a lot of support from her father and was raised to believe she could do anything, regardless of gender. When she started at Penn and realized so many young women felt restricted by gender roles, she founded GenHERation, a female empowerment network for high school girls.

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We’re kicking off our Millennial Trains Project (MTP) spotlights with a millennial who makes being a woman in tech look cool and effortless.

Pichleap Sok is one of 25 millennials who participated in this year’s MTP. Sok is a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Foreign Student from Cambodia and one of the next great women in technology. She is currently completing a Master’s in Software Engineering at Loyola University Chicago and believes that women can add serious value to the tech industry.

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What do you see as essential to developing a trendy, up and coming neighborhood?

The answer is millennials- at least that what principal of Zocalo Community Development David Zucker says.  That’s why he recently sat down with over 200 of them, along with local business leaders, at CollaborEAT, an urban dining event hosted by CityBuild to discuss with them how a vibrant downtown could eventually emerge from Arapahoe Square, the most underdeveloped area of downtown Denver.  An area in need of a revamping.

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A just-released report from Downtown Denver Partnership breaks down what is, more or less, a check-up report on the health of the Mile High City’s startup scene. Of note, 88 startups have been founded in downtown Denver this year alone (which, in case you’ve forgotten, is still chugging along), with 39 startups managing to snag $197,627,500 worth of funding in 2013. That’s a lot of digits.

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