The Haitian Creole Academy for the promotion of Haitian Creole was officially inaugurated in Port-au-Prince last week. Professor Michel DeGraff is one of the first 33 members of the Academy, along with two other MIT-Haiti colleagues: Nicolas André of CreoleTrans in Miami and Pierre-Michel Chéry in Port-au-Prince.
Michel DeGraff was also invited to be part of a recently created National Commission on Curricular Reform (see this article in the newspaper Haiti Libre).
Below are more news, photos and videos of the Akademi Kreyòl (some but not all of it in Kreyòl!):
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/degraff/Depliyan_Akademi_Kreyol_Ayisyen.pdf
https://twitter.com/MichelJMartelly/status/540577732854571009
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=786466611421046&id=613370545397321
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8-2VSzcoxc&feature=youtu.be&a