Our Mission & Story.
Centering the Law's Human Core.
Our Mission.
The Elizabeth Tweneboah Foundation is committed to leveraging the law to empower human potential in our rapidly evolving technological landscape. We create opportunities for authentic dialogue that generate new legal insights grounded in personal wisdom and human connection.
Our work begins with the recognition that law extends beyond formal rules to shape individual lives, relationships, and communities in ways that might either constrain or expand what becomes possible. By engaging conversations that lead with intentional listening, we uncover perspectives that not only shed light upon how legal frameworks can more effectively nurture self and collective actualization, but also enrich legal discourse.
These exchanges inform our presentations, research, and publications that broaden the contours of legal scholarship and practice. We regard everyday encounters with law as legitimate legal knowledge, and we invite legal professionals to help us engage the law as an instrument for fostering inner growth and belief in the most expansive sense.
Overall, ETF at its core aims to render people feeling truly seen and understood. By observing and recording how the law intersects with individual transformation in the everyday, we are building an enduring archive of legal consciousness that helps to ensure that the law affirms and uplifts who people are capable of becoming.
Our Story.
Exceptional legal minds have always prevailed beyond the four walls of formal institutions. The Elizabeth Tweneboah Foundation was conceived from this enduring premise.
Elizabeth Tweneboah, our namesake, embodied a form of legal brilliance that transcended formal education. In early Ghana, she mediated disputes and delivered community harmony through deep relational attunement and instinctive wisdom. Without formal credentials, Elizabeth wielded communal law as a powerful instrument for nurturing individual capacity and collective flourishing.
Christine E. Ohenewah, our Founder and a Cornell-trained lawyer and scholar, draws ETF’s vision Elizabeth’s legacy: legal brilliance and effectiveness arises from integrating legal skill with profound respect for human complexity and the unlimited nature of what individuals can become. The Elizabeth Tweneboah Foundation champions the belief that the future of law belongs to those who move beyond efficiency and detached rationalism.
The next generation of legal minds will embrace the effective reasoning and attunement that Elizabeth embodied generations before traditional institutions recognized its essential value.