Meet Our Team
-min.jpg)
Erika Maddamma
Sunny Spaces Company Owner
Sunny Spaces company owner, Erika Maddamma, has been passionate about organizing for as long as she can remember. As a kid, she would wake up on Saturday mornings and re-organize her closet just for fun. She would offer to help clean up and organize friends' rooms when she went over for play dates. For Erika, there’s something therapeutic about the organizing process, and even more rewarding to know she helped a friend out! She’s a naturally positive person, always looking on the bright side, and is a great motivator. She firmly believes life should be lived fully, dreams should be pursued, and nothing should hold you back!
​
​
​
​
After nearly a decade of working for a car seat manufacturer in the baby industry, educating retail staff, and having a child of her own, Erika’s desire to help other parents deal with the excess baby items, exploding playrooms, and insane schedules led her back to her passion and Sunny Spaces Organizing in Pittsburgh was born. Erika grew up in New England. She moved to Pittsburgh in 2016, after meeting her husband while she was traveling for work. Aside from organizing, Erika also loves:
​
-
spending time in the sunshine, traveling, practicing yoga
-
dance parties with her boys, Kaleb and Jaxson
-
bold red wine, hoppy IPA and rich, black coffee
-
sushi, ice cream, and campfire s’mores
Erika considers herself down to earth and looks forward to helping people in the Pittsburgh area meet their organizing goals!
Mandy Ayers
Lead Organizer
Assistant Organizer, Mandy Ayers, is originally from 2 hours north of Pittsburgh. She came to Pittsburgh for nursing school 20 years ago. She has been a critical care nurse since then. She decided to get her real estate license to learn the home-selling business. Mandy had the long-term goal of opening up a home staging business. She received her home staging and interior design certifications and created her start-up home styling business, Lolo Studio. She has been doing staging, styling, organizing, and designing for the last 10 years. She loves that every client situation is unique and enjoys repurposing items that they have in a creative and functional way. In her spare time, she spends time with her two girls and enjoys playing tennis as a hobby.
Michelle Robins
Social Media Manager
Michelle is a Pittsburgh native who relocated home in 2021 after spending nine years teaching elementary school in northern Virginia! Friends and family agree that organizing has been in her blood from a very young age. From organizing her extensive Barbie collection as a child to her reluctant husband's closet today, she's had plenty of practice! She is a mama of two little girls and enjoys cooking, reading, and snuggling her two kitties, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Michelle looks forward to working with you to create your own sunny space!
Hannah Milheim Novacco
Assistant Organizer
Assistant Organizer, Hannah, grew up in a northeast suburb of Pittsburgh and is also a part-time speech-language pathologist. Hannah began working with Sunny Spaces in 2022, making one of her childhood dreams of organizing reality. In addition to keeping things neat and tidy, Hannah enjoys adventures with her husband, all things active, and cuddling up on the couch with her cats -Forrest & Tuna. Hannah looks forward to working with you to reach your goals for organization and peace mind!
Jessica Ryan
Assistant Organizer
Assistant Organizer, Jessica Ryan, lives in the North Hills of Pittsburgh with her husband and two daughters.Having managed a middle school classroom as a math teacher for 11 years, she recognizes the importance of organization in all phases of life and is eager to help others along their organizing journey. Jessica enjoys volunteering on the boards of her daughters’ parent-teacher organizations, camping, and applying her organizing skills at home and with friends and family.
Danielle Martel
Life Coach
Danielle always had a passion for health and fitness which landed her first career in Physical Therapy. When the pandemic hit, she realized she was unfulfilled in her life and current career. After some soul searching and a heart-to-heart with her sister, Erika (Sunny Spaces CEO) she found the hidden world of Health and Life Coaching that transformed her life. Through the amazing tools she learned and practices DAILY, she uncovered where she was stuck and unlocked her freedom to more happiness and less stress—creating a healthy lifestyle she LOVES and THRIVES in.
As a Health and Life Coach she helps women get unstuck and create healthy habits in their life by getting to the root of their problem holding them back from the life they desire! But her secret to success is teaching her clients how to make new habits LAST by using the power of coaching and mindset management for true transformation. She believes you simply cannot create consistent habits without having your mind right! Danielle is gentle with her clients, yet holds them accountable to get the MOST out of their experience together.
​
Helping women create lifestyle overhauls is her passion in all areas of their life. She believes life is too short to be unhappy, and that you deserve to live the most vibrant and purposeful life you LOVE!