Urmitapa is leading two ORA Research Grants, including Storytelling as Survival: The Itamugur Community Media Initiative for Miya Rights and Recognition as well as a project to understand the narratives of culture and the arts that exists within community-based projects within the larger ORA community. She is a community psychologist, scholar-activist, and educator whose work is rooted in transnational feminist and decolonial frameworks. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she also serves as the Chair of the UMass Lowell Greeley Peace Scholar Program. Her co-authored works with community partners and students have appeared in Qualitative Inquiry, American Journal of Community Psychology, Journal of Peace Psychology, and the Journal of Social Issues and several decolonial community psychology handbooks.