Adrienn Adorjan

Founder and Project Leader

I am Adrienn Adorjan, the owner of ReLand Life, the creator of the original NeuroVillage concept, the founder and initiator of the project, and the project manager leading its development. I bring three decades of professional experience in project development, communications, creative strategy, and the implementation of complex new initiatives. I hold several professional qualifications across human-centered disciplines, all united by one central focus: people themselves.

One of the last pieces of advice I received before leaving Hungary was simple:

“Whatever innovative idea you may have whatever you want to create and bring to life go to America and build it there.”

I followed that advice. I left my homeland and began a new chapter in the United States. I brought with me the knowledge, experience, perspective, resilience, and creative spirit I had developed throughout my successful career in Hungary.

The Question That Gave Birth to NeuroVillage

While living in the United States and meeting neurodivergent people and their families, a fundamental question began to form in my mind:

Why do we continue trying to integrate neurodivergent people into a world that was never designed around the way they experience and navigate it? Why do we try to confine them within a framework whose norms were never created for the way they function? After all, our increasingly fragmented world no longer works optimally even for us.

Neurodivergent people already possess complete and meaningful inner worlds. They are not incomplete versions of neurotypical people, and they should not be forced into structures built around a single, narrow definition of normality. Instead of continually expecting them to adapt to environments that may overwhelm, exclude, or misunderstand them, we should create a world that recognizes their distinctive ways of thinking, sensing, communicating, and living from the very beginning.

This realization became the starting point of NeuroVillage: the vision of creating a world in which neurodivergent people can feel safe, understood, valued, and genuinely at home.

I came to recognize that neurodivergent people are not merely individuals whom society should support. Their distinctive perspectives, talents, sensitivity, honesty, creativity, and ability to recognize patterns may offer important insights into many of the systems humanity now needs to reconsider-including environmental stewardship, economic structures, education, technology, and the organization of society itself.

They can teach us to see differently. Their perspectives can serve as a guiding light as we search for a way out of the overstimulated, fragmented, and increasingly unsustainable world we have created. I firmly believe they can help lead us toward a quieter, more thoughtful, more authentic, and more humane understanding of life.

Why Hungarians?

We believe that Hungarian knowledge, creativity, and professional expertise can create significant value in the United States.

Throughout history, Hungarians have left an extraordinary mark on science, technology, medicine, culture, and the arts worldwide. László Bíró transformed everyday writing through the invention of the modern ballpoint pen. John von Neumann made foundational contributions to computing, mathematics, and game theory. Budapest-born aerospace pioneer Theodore von Kármán helped establish NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and made significant contributions to the development of modern aerodynamics. Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize-winning research helped enable the development of effective mRNA vaccines.

Hungarian-born pioneers also played a formative role in the creation of the American film industry. Adolph Zukor became one of the central architects of Paramount Pictures, while William Fox founded the Fox Film Corporation. Directors, writers, actors, composers, and other artists of Hungarian origin including Michael Curtiz and Miklós Rózsa helped shape Hollywood’s artistic language and international influence.

This heritage represents more than a list of individual achievements. It reflects a distinctive tradition of resourcefulness, imagination, resilience, unconventional thinking, and the ability to transform limitations into innovation. One of Hungary’s greatest assets has always been its intellectual capital. I believe that we, as Hungarians, have a responsibility to place this knowledge in the service of others and to help build a better world through innovation.

Hungary also has a long-standing tradition of special education, autism research, family support, and community-based professional practice. Hungarian organizations and professionals actively participate in European knowledge exchange, sharing and developing good practices related to education, employment, family services, and support for autistic and neurodivergent people.

NeuroVillage seeks to bring this knowledge into a new American context and combine it with the experiences, needs, professional resources, and innovative potential already present in the United States.

Reimagining the Meaning of a Village

The name NeuroVillage is inspired by the most valuable qualities of the village communities many of us remember from childhood: places where people knew one another, responsibility was shared, and the wider community helped care for children, families, older people, and anyone who needed additional support.

NeuroVillage is not intended to recreate the past. It seeks to carry the human value of that community spirit into the future.

We must recognize that the era of extreme individualism has reached its limits. A sustainable future cannot be built solely around personal achievement, competition, and isolation. We believe the future belongs to communities founded on attentiveness, cooperation, shared responsibility, acceptance, and love.

Our goal is to develop a coordinated, lifelong model of support for neurodivergent people and their families. We aim to create a flexible and adaptable system that connects housing, education, healthcare, employment, transportation, family support, community life, and personal development. We believe this level of integration is not currently available anywhere else in the world in this form.

Our purpose is to provide neurodivergent children with a long-term life strategy that supports their transition into adulthood and enables them to live as independently as possible within a self-sustaining community.

Rather than requiring people to move repeatedly between disconnected services as their needs change, the NeuroVillage support system will evolve and adapt around each individual throughout every stage of life.

Research-Led Development in California

NeuroVillage will be grounded in comprehensive research conducted in California with the participation of neurodivergent people, families, professionals, community organizations, service providers, and other relevant institutions.

The research will allow us to understand real experiences, identify unmet needs, and determine which forms of lifelong support can create the greatest practical and human value. Its findings will guide the final development of the NeuroVillage model and ensure that the community is built on evidence, collaboration, and lived experience rather than assumptions.

Our goal is to establish the first NeuroVillage community in California and develop a model that may later be adapted to other locations.

NeuroVillage represents genuine social innovation: a practical response to the challenges of a world in transition and an opportunity to rethink how people can live, learn, work, grow, and care for one another.

We are not trying to preserve a system that no longer works. We are helping to create what comes next.