Assaf is currently Artist-in-Residence and guest faculty at the School of Theatre & Dance, University of South Florida (Tampa). Her organization, Art2Action, Inc., recently received a $189,200 grant for THIS Bridge, a project she will produce in partnership with USF. The grant is one of only six awarded nationwide by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) "Building Bridges: Campus Community Engagement Grant Program," a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Other awards include a National Performance Network Creation Fund Commission, 2010 Princess Grace Award in Theater, 2007 Hedgebrook residency and a 2004 Cultural Contact grant. She is a Board member of Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists and Alternate ROOTS, and a member of Radius of Arab American Writers). Presented as part of Tigertail Speak Out 2017.