[3] It is composed of up to 55 scholars under the leadership of Rogéda Dorcé Dorcil.

It had an official orthography by the late 1970s[citation needed], and it was elevated to co-official language with French in the 1987 Haitian Constitution.

The constitution, in Article 213,[6] stated that a Haitian creole language academy should be founded.

[7] The language still lacked an academy to regulate its evolution until about 25 years later.

[citation needed] In 2017, Renauld Govain, dean of the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the State University of Haiti, criticized the Akademi's first resolution, saying it confused orthography, alphabet, and spelling.