LEK AN OL AWOYE Local leader inspired to act PHOTOGRAPH BY ALIA YOUSSEF, IMAGE ARTS '17 'I can't get complacent and comfortable' ON MOST MOR NINGS, Lekan Olawoye, a married father of three young children, who holds more jobs and titles than he can name off the top of his head, is awake before dawn. (He does not drink coffee.) "I have a chip on my shoulder-I have a lot to do, I have a lot to prove." He was sitting in a boardroom near his office in the MaRS Discovery District, a few blocks from Ryerson University. It was 9:30 a.m., and he had already ← been awake for five hours, Lekan Olawoye and had taken part in at has his sights set on becoming least one conference call before sitting down for an a Toronto city councillor. interview that was slotted Summer 2018 / Ryerson University Magazine 31