Adanna Steinacker

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Adanna Steinacker (née Ohakim, 2 March 1988) is a medical doctor, entrepreneur, public speaker, and a strong advocate for women's empowerment.[1][2] Her purpose-driven brand "House of Adanna", a creative community platform that empowers women, produces engaging content around the topics of health, well-being, sustainability, motherhood, and equality, including Sustainable Development Goals SDG 5 and SDG 3. House of Adanna's online community counts over 1 million people combined. Adanna is married to her university sweetheart David Steinacker, a German business consultant, and they have three children together.[3]

Personal life and education[edit]

Adanna Steinacker, from Imo State, Nigeria, was born on 2 March 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 obtaining a BSc in Biomedicine from the University of East Anglia, UK in 2010, and medical degrees (MB, Bch, BAO, LRCP and SI) from The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) in 2015.

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,[4] and a church ceremony in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2014.[5] Videos of their wedding went viral and have amassed over 2.8 million views.[6] They have three children, two sons and a daughter.

Work[edit]

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 offered on-site rotations in Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa, with plans to expand across the entire continent.[7][8][9] In 2020, Medics Abroad was affected by the pandemic, just a year after transitioning fully from clinical practice to entrepreneurship.

Steinacker is a Digital influencer.[10] She first gained international notability when a 15-second Instagram video of herself and her husband, dancing to Afrobeats music in their kitchen, went viral in 2014.[11] In 2018, Steinacker and her husband were featured in the BBC Newsbeat documentary YouTube Couples: How to stay in love.[12]

She has been featured as the keynote speaker at various international conferences, including the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Annual Meeting,[13] United Nations Climate Change conference,[14] and the Goalkeepers Initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,[15] focusing on women's empowerment, particularly around health, sustainability, equality, and SDG 3.[16][better source needed]

Advocacy[edit]

A black African woman, Steinacker identifies as a feminist.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Meet Dr Adanna Steinacker, the young woman on a mission to change how foreign medical students are placed in hospitals in Africa". www.pulse.ng. 20 February 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  2. ^ Uriri, Francesca. "Leading Ladies Africa Nigeria's 100 most inspiring women in 2019". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  3. ^ Steinacker, Adanna (8 February 2021). "'Here's What We've Learned Raising A Family As An Interracial Couple'". Grazia. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ^ Weddings, BellaNaija (3 March 2014). "BN Weddings: Adanna & David! The German Wedding". BellaNaija. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  5. ^ Weddings, BellaNaija (13 October 2014). "BellaNaija Weddings presents Adanna & David's Wedding! From Imo to Germany & Ireland". BellaNaija. Retrieved 24 July 2019.
  6. ^ Adanna David (29 November 2014), OUR WEDDING VIDEO | AdannaDavid, retrieved 22 July 2019
  7. ^ "Medics Abroad Announces Partnership". The Guardian. Nigeria. 17 January 2020. Archived from the original on 17 January 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Medics Abroad and RCSI Bahrain partner to recruit Nigerian students for medical studies". The Sun Nigeria. 17 January 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  9. ^ "A JOURNEY WITH MEDICS ABROAD". Light Magazine Africa. 6 September 2018. Archived from the original on 22 August 2020. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  10. ^ Goorwich, Sam (14 February 2015). "Meet the Instagram couples with the picture perfect relationships". Metro. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  11. ^ Weddings, BellaNaija (22 February 2014). "BN Weddings Couple Crush: The Cutest Dancing Duo – Adanna & David!". BellaNaija. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  12. ^ Jennings, Maddy. "Ben Hunte Creates BBC Documentary — YouTube News, Features, and Interviews". Ten Eighty. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Meet the YouTube creators covering Davos 2023". 15 January 2023.
  14. ^ "YouTube invited me to #COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt!". 21 November 2022.
  15. ^ "MY INTERVIEW WITH BILL GATES IN NEW YORK". YouTube. November 2022.
  16. ^ "Adanna Steinacker". WETM-IAC. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  17. ^ "Adanna | The Eclectic African Expanding Horizons In Style". Lysa. 6 May 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.

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