Marketing Minds: Session 01: Let's Meet Each Other
You've navigated a new country. You've built a career in a language that wasn't your first. And through it all, you kept showing up—as a marketer, a strategist, a creator.
It's time we found each other.
Marketing Minds is a new space within She's New to America Pro, built for immigrant women who work in marketing—across every specialty, every channel, every level.
Our first session is simple: no agenda, no slides, no pressure. Just a virtual room full of marketers who get it.
At this first meetup, we'll:
Introduce ourselves and share what we do
Talk about what brought us to marketing and what keeps us here
Start mapping what this community needs most: trends, tools, peer support, or skill-building
Lay the groundwork for future sessions on PPC, marketing ops, digital strategy, paid media, AI in marketing, and more
Who this is for:
Immigrant women working in any area of marketing
Whether you're in-house, agency, freelance, or transitioning
All levels welcome—coordinator to CMO
This is your room. Come as you are.
Format: Virtual | 90 minutes | Free for She's NTAP members
Your Hosts
Azhar Imanakunova is a Senior Partner Marketing Manager at Nexcess with 10+ years of experience in GTM strategy, demand generation, and revenue operations across B2B. She is the founder of She's New to America Pro—a community of 250+ immigrant women navigating careers in the United States. Azhar brings deep expertise in performance marketing, paid media, and partnership-driven growth, combined with a genuine passion for building spaces where immigrant professionals can thrive.
Maria Gordienko is a Product Marketing Manager with 8+ years of experience across EdTech, AI healthcare, HRTech, and B2B events. She is the co-founder of She's New to America Pro and the strategist behind its positioning and growth — building the community to 250 members with sub-2% churn and zero paid acquisition. Maria specializes in GTM strategy, customer research, and positioning—and she has a track record that speaks for itself: $10M in product pre-orders, $2M in event revenue, and $1M in enterprise revenue saved.
Together, they bring the full marketing stack—strategy, execution, performance, and community—and they built She's NTAP from the ground up with both.