In 1987 she graduated from Loudoun County High School[1] where she was a cheerleader, served on the editorial staff of the yearbook, and was a member of the National Honor Society.

Urbani earned a BA from The University of Alabama (1991) in Tuscaloosa, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta[2] and commitment worked as an award-winning writer and editor for the Corolla.

[6] Her work is the subject of a short documentary titled Paint Me a Future[7] that won the Juror’s Award for Excellence at the Palm Springs International Film Festival in 2000.

It describes her personal experiences with assaults and illness,[9] as well as political maneuverings such as the self-coup or autogolpe staged by then-President Jorge Serrano Elías who was quickly ousted with help from the CIA.

Urbani's debut novel, Landfall (Forest Avenue Press, 2015),[10] is a work of historical fiction set in the Deep South – primarily Tuscaloosa, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana – in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.