Finding My Voice: On Grieving My Father, Eric Garner, and Pushing for Justice by Emerald Garner
This book publicity case study outlines the work Coriolis Company performed for Emerald Garner’s memoir, Finding My Voice: On Grieving My Father, Eric Garner, and Pushing for Justice, published by Haymarket Books on October 4, 2022. Finding My Voice recounts her father’s cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence.
Events
October 4, 2022, Finding My Voice: Book Launch, hosted by Daughter Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
October 6, 2022, Book Reading hosted by The Word is Change, Brooklyn, NY
October 8, 2022, Book Signing with Rev. Al Sharpton, hosted by National Action Network, New York, NY
October 12, 2022, Emerald Garner presents “Finding My Voice” with Etan Thomas & Monet Dunham, hosted by Community Bookstore, virtual event
October 28, 2022, Diverse Voices Author Conversation hosted by Easton Area Public Library, Lafayette College, and Book & Puppet Bookstore, Easton, PA
Interviews
October 4, 2022, “Emerald Garner on her new book ‘Finding My Voice’ and the pursuit of justice,” Fox 32 Chicago
October 4, 2022, “Emerald Garner” with David Fettig, Write On! Radio
October 7, 2022, “Emerald Garner, ‘Finding My Voice’ (Haymarket, 2022)” with Ari Barbalat, New Books in African American Studies
October 11, 2022, “October 11 | Our Culture, Our World,” The Conversation with Al McFarlane on KFAI FM
October 11, 2022, “Conversation w/ Emerald Garner (Daughter of Eric Garner)” with Rahiem Shabazz , Necessary Blackness
October 19, 2022, “Eric Garner’s Youngest Child, Emerald Snipes-Garner is Still Fighting for Justice After the Death of Her Dad and Her Sister,” First Things First with Dominique DiPrima on KBLA 1580 AM
October 24, 2022, “Eric Garner’s Daughter on the Power of Protests” with Krys Boyd, Think on KERA FM
October 28, 2022, “Emerald Garner: Finding Her Voice,” Black America on CUNY TV
November 1, 2022, “Finding My Voice with Emerald Garner” with Brad Wygle, Black History for White People
December 7, 2022, “Finding Her Voice, with Emerald Garner” with Gary Michels, Let’s Talk Legacy
December 13, 2022, “Emerald Garner is Seeking Justice” with Omkari Williams, Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Social Justice and How We Get Free
January 26, 2023, “The Source w/ Andrea Lawful-Sanders | Emerald Garner,” The Source with Andrea Lawful-Sanders on WURD Radio
Reviews
Features
October 5, 2022, “Emerald Garner on Trauma, Picking up the Pieces and Finding Her Voice,” Ms. Magazine
December 7, 2022, “Finding My Voice,” Chicago News Weekly
Book Publicity Assets
Coriolis also provided 240 visual book marketing assets to be used in marketing the book and on the authors’ social media. These consisted of 223 graphics and 17 video assets.
*This post was last updated on January 31, 2023.
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