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About Us

About Inglewood Community Center

A safe, inspiring space where opportunity is within reach for every young person in Inglewood.

Who We Are

Built for Inglewood’s young people

Inglewood Community Center for Learning and Enrichment was created for the young people of Inglewood and the families raising them. At ICC, youth experience a safe, inspiring space that removes barriers, expands opportunity, and equips them to excel academically, grow personally, and lead with purpose.

Serving students in grades 6 through 12, the Center brings tutoring, athletics, STEM, the arts, mentorship, and leadership development together under one roof. Programs run alongside a coordinated network of trusted community partners, so a young person who walks through our doors finds support that reaches well beyond a single classroom.

We are a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, shaped by a simple conviction: talent is spread evenly across Inglewood, and opportunity should be too.

Diverse Latino and Black teenagers in a leadership council discussion at ICC
Founding Team

Meet the Founding Team

The founders and leaders whose vision and experience are bringing this community to life.

Baron Farwell

Baron Farwell

Founder

Baron Farwell is the founder behind both LA Christian Academy and the Inglewood Community Center. The sole owner of All City Management Services (ACMS), the school crossing guard company his father founded in Inglewood in 1985, Baron joined in 1993 and grew it to 25 states and more than 9,000 crossing guards nationwide before retiring in 2025.

Carmen Johnson

Carmen Johnson

Founding Director

Carmen Johnson brings more than 20 years of experience in business operations, strategic planning, program management, and organizational transformation. She has led complex initiatives, built high-performing teams, and developed the operational structures needed to turn ambitious ideas into sustainable programs.

Governance

Our Board of Directors

Inglewood Community Center is guided by leaders who have spent their careers in this community: on the bench, in city hall, and in the classroom.

Artie A. Fields

Artie A. Fields

Board Member

Artie Fields is a retired California city manager with nearly four decades of municipal government experience, including more than twelve years as City Manager of the City of Inglewood. He holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and remains active with ICMA, the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, and the NAACP.

Hon. J. Christopher Smith

Hon. J. Christopher Smith

Board Member

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Judge Smith served as a Los Angeles County deputy public defender and led his own practice before first being elected as a commissioner in 2015 and then appointed as a judge in 2017 to the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. He serves in a juvenile justice assignment in Inglewood and teaches juvenile justice to bench officers statewide for the Judicial Council of California.