Najiyah is a Ph.D. student of Religion and Nature track at the University of Florida. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Technology from Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, specializing in post-harvest technology and food microbiology, and completed her M.A in Religious Studies with a special focus on Women and Sufism from the same university. Before coming to the University of Florida for her Ph.D. she served as a Public Education and Research Coordinator at the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), Gadjah Mada University. She also advocates permaculture as an alternative way of living for a sustainable future and published two articles for Routledge; Islam and Ecology: Normative and Practices in the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (co-written with Dr. Zainal Abidin Bagir, 2016) and Religion and Disaster in Grounding Religion: A Field Guide to The Study of Religion and Ecology(2017). Her research interests include Religious Environmental Movement Organizations (REMO) especially in Muslim society, Permaculture and Agroecology movement, religion and conservation biology, masculinity and environment, and ecological thinking.