Our Team

Janna Pea is an Executive Vice President focusing on culture, social impact, and racial and gender justice at BerlinRosen. Combining her years of PR work in women’s rights, entertainment, labor and politics, Janna has deep experience advising high-profile clients and is known for her calm navigation of crisis communications situations. While at the firm, Janna has led many of our cultural impact work through film and grassroots campaigns, while also raising the profile for many of our clients in the political, arts and culture + social impact spaces.

Dr. Brittany Erickson has spent the past 15 years intensely focused on understanding how learning happens. She has a reputation for designing provocative and impactful learning experiences, helping teams work collaboratively and nimbly, and supporting leaders to realize greater authenticity and impact in all they do. Britt began her career in education as a sixth-grade teacher in San Francisco, CA. To this day, transforming school and school systems remains her passion and she has led dozens of school design projects in the United States and abroad with a common goal of advancing equitable and bold outcomes. Outside of education, Britt supports leading companies in design, technology, healthcare and energy to craft strategy and implement practices to be more innovative, inclusive and effective.

Leonard Medlock is an expert at designing culturally responsive technologies and experiences that address the needs of black and brown students. His experiences range from co-leading the design of four NYC public high schools, which in their fifth year have graduated hundreds of students from New York City’s most under-served neighborhoods, to managing the first ever pilot of Google Chromebooks and Khan Academy in the world.

Leonard was a founding team member of EdSurge, the foremost authority on education technology and entrepreneurship, where his thought leadership reached tens of thousands of teachers, administrators, entrepreneurs and investors. During his tenure, he also co-created and managed a service for selecting the right education technology, which was used by hundreds of schools and districts across the U.S. Throughout his career, Leonard has coached or advised dozens of K-12 leaders and social impact entrepreneurs through organizations such as the Stanford d.school, Camelback Ventures, and Cambiar Education, where he currently serves as General Manager. He hustles 5-9 as CEO of Playback Worldwide, a technology firm focused on helping student-athletes build life skills while excelling at sports.

Leonard has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a M.Ed in Learning, Design and Technology from the Stanford Graduate School of Education.

Juliet Silveira is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, educator and homeschooling mother. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Painting, she worked for Bill Hodges gallery in New York City and went on to manage the office of Gunn Landscape Architecture. Her murals can be found in both the US and Brazil, and her figure paintings and drawings have been exhibited in galleries such as New York’s The Westbeth Gallery and The Painting Center. Juliet also uses portraiture as a means of giving art directly to her community. In her first year teaching at a public charter school, she presented a collection of more than 100 portraits as gifts to her first graduating class of students.

As a teacher, Juliet introduced the first choice-based arts program in her school’s network, and served as her school’s first Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team leader. Driven by an endless love for children and learning, Juliet helps community leaders, parents and educators recognize how history and bias impact the ways we teach and interact with children and how current cultural norms push us into unsustainable and unhealthy ways of living. With a passion for social justice, sustainability and self-directed education, her goal is to help adults find new ways to partner with children to create a more equitable world. Juliet is also an amatuer gardener and dedicated martial arts practitioner. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two daughters.

Candace Stanciel founded The Common Good Agency (CGA), a consulting firm focused on capacity building for nonprofits and Higher Education institutions, in 2003. Through CGA Candace has led a number of efforts around DEI capacity building, public-private partnership development, brand activation, strategic planning and leadership development. Candace’s work with clients focuses on developing DEI capacity and competency for systems change. Increased DEI capacity, or the ability to identify, interpret and interrupt inequitable practices, is critical for all individuals, but significantly more valuable for those in spaces of social impact seeking to deliver outcomes for people not driven by factors of race, gender, SES or other markers of identity. Candace also serves as a Partner with New Profit, a venture philanthropy firm, where she co-leads the Capitalizing Diverse Leaders and Organizations (CDLAO) initiative.

Candace’s passion for social change is also exemplified through her volunteer work with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., New Leaders Council (NLC), The Boston Pearl Foundation and Mother Caroline Academy. Candace earned a B.A. in African-American studies from the University of Georgia in 2002 and a master’s degree in higher education from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006.