After moving to the United States in 1994, she earned a Master's degree in Visual Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA in 1997.
Assari is the cover artist and contributor for The Poetry Of Iranian Women[1] an anthology of contemporary poems edited by Sheema Kalbasi.
She was the Invited Artist and promotional poster designer for the Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shiism Conference at the University of Oxford in July 2006.
[3] In 2007, Assari created the theme poster for the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation (IWSF)18th Annual International Conference, which was held June 29-July 1, 2007 at the University of Maryland, College Park campus.
Assari uses different media - including sculpting, drawing, painting, and photography - and has been featured in multiple exhibitions in the United States and Europe.