Adanna Steinacker (née Ohakim) is a Nigerian medical doctor, entrepreneur, digital influencer and public speaker on female empowerment and humanitarianism. Her YouTube channel “The Adanna David Family”, which she runs together with her husband David Steinacker, a German business consultant, features weekly vlogs and counts over 301,000 subscribers.

Personal life and education

Adanna Steinacker, from Imo State, Nigeria, was born on March 2, 1988. She is one of five children of Igbo businessman, politician and former governor of Imo State Ikedi Ohakim and barrister Chioma Ohakim. She attended high school in Nigeria before gaining a BSc in Biomedicine from the University of East Anglia in the UK in 2010, and medical degrees (MB, Bch, BAO, LRCP and SI) from The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 2015. In 2018, she earned a Certificate of Entrepreneurship from Harvard Business School.

While at university, she met German native David Steinacker, a fellow student who began working as a business consultant in the technology sector in 2012. A few years into their relationship, the couple celebrated three wedding ceremonies, a traditional Igbo Igbankwu in Nigeria in December 2013, a German court wedding in March 2014, and a church ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2014. Videos of their wedding went viral and have amassed over 2.2 million views. They have two sons.

Work

In October 2017, Steinacker founded and became the CEO of Medics Abroad, an international organisation providing logistics for clinical placements in Africa to medics around the world. Medics Abroad currently offers on-site rotations in Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa, with plans to expand across the entire continent.

Steinacker is an African YouTube and Instagram influencer. Together with her husband, she runs the YouTube channel “The Adanna David Family” and a Instagram account. Combined, their channels have attracted over 580,000 subscribers. The couple, known as AdannaDavid, first gained international notability when a 15-second Instagram video of them dancing to African music in their kitchen went viral in 2014. In 2018, Steinacker and her husband were featured in the BBC Newsbeat documentary YouTube Couples: How to stay in love.”

She has been featured as the keynote speaker at various international conferences, focusing on female entrepreneurship, medical educational travel, and authenticity on social media.

Advocacy

A black female African, Steinacker identifies as a feminist.