Pada periode DPR RI 2014 – 2019, ia dipercaya untuk menjabat pada Komisi IX yang membidangi Tenaga Kerja & Transmigrasi, Kependudukan, dan Kesehatan. Sebelum masuk ke ranah politik melalui DPR, Ninik Wafiroh dikenal sebagai kalangan aktivis dan akademisi. Setelah menjabat pada DPR RI Nihayatul Wafiroh memiliki visi dan misi yaitu DPR menjadi rumah rakyat yang memajukan hak-hak perempuan dan anak. Nihayatul Wafiroh adalah satu dari tiga orang anggota dewan yang mengusulkan RUU Penghapusan Kekerasan Seksual.
Ibu dua orang anak ini juga merupakan bagian dari Jajaran pembantu pengasuh Pondok Pesantren Darussalam, Banyuwangi.
Pendidikan
Doctoral program, ICRS-Yogya (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies), UGM Yogyakarta (2009-2016)
Master, in Asian Studies Department University of Hawaii at Manoa Hawaii, United States (2007-2009, cum laude)
Resource Person of Australian’s Education Partnership with Indonesia- School System & Quality. (March – June 2013)
Consultant Final Women View Report, Search For Common Ground (SFCG) September-October 2012
Temporary Program Officer (PO) in SILE/LLD program CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), (Feb – May 2012)
Program Manager (PM) in Association for Community Empowerment (ACE) (2011-2012)
Program Executive (PE) of Globethics.net Indonesia (February 2010-November 2011)
Teaching Assistant at University of Hawaii at Manoa on the History of Sexuality course in fall semester, 2008.
Teacher in Darussalam Islamic Boarding School (2004-2010).
Lecturer at Institute Agama Islam Darussalam IAIDA/Darussalam Institute of Islamic Studies, Banyuwangi. (2004-present), on Islamic Philosophy course, Introduction of Philosophy course.
“Menstruasi dalam Tafsir Fakhruddin al-Razy (Menstruation in Fakhruddin al-Razy’s Quranic Exegete), a research report published in a book entitled Telaah Ulang Wacana Seksualitas, published by Pusat Studi Wanita IAIN Sunan Kalijaga in cooperation with McGill University, January, 2004
Being Santri,” published in Journal Exploration at Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Fall 2009
“The Islamic-political Geneology of Fatayat in Soekarno and Soeharto Era: Feminist Perspective on the History of Organization,” Indonesian Feminist Journal, Vol, 2, No. 2, August 2014
“The Practices of Arranged Marriages: A Comparative Perspective”, in En Arche Journal. Vol.4, No.1 (2015)
Publikasi
“Modernisasi Pendidikan Pesantren” (Modernizing Islamic Boarding School), an article published in daily Kompas Newspaper, June 10, 2002
“Pesantren dan Kekerasan pada Perempuan” (Islamic Boarding School and Violence against Women), an article published in daily Jawa Pos newspaper, April 1, 2003
“Potret Perempuan dalam Al-Quran: Studi Metodologi Penafsiran Amina Wadud Muhsin” (Woman in Al-Qoran: Study on Amina Wadud Muhsin’s Method of Exegeses), an article published in New Letter Rakjat. Lapesam NU Banyuwangi, July 2003
“Berpayung Tradisi dan Budaya” (Under the Umbrella of Tradition and Culture), an article published in ARENA, LPM IAIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, 2003.
“Ketika Perempuan Jadi Bupati Banyuwangi” (When a woman being Banyuwangi Regent), an article published in daily Jawa Pos Newspaper, July 3, 2005
“Daya Tawar Perempuan dalam Pilkadal” (Women’s Bargaining Position in Region Election), an article published in daily Jawa Pos newspaper, Mei 1, 2005.
“Mengetuk Nurani Perempuan” (Calling Women’s Consciousness), an article published in daily Jawa Pos newspaper, August 6, 2006.
“Kenapa Harus Pesantren” (Why Should be Islamic Boarding Schools), an article published in daily Jawa Pos newspaper, October 2006.
“Suka Duka Menjalani Puasa di Hawaii, US”, article published in daily Jawa Pos Newspaper, October 1-2 2007
“Menikah atau Kuliah ?” (Married or study?), an article published in Swara Rahima Magazine, edition 22, September 2007
“Ketika Mamaku Berjanji” (When My mother promises), a short story (Cerita pendek) published in Kompas online on June 1, 2009
“Aku Tak Memiliki Tubuhku” (I do not have my body), a short story (cerita pendek) published in Al-Madaniah magazine, Surabaya, July 2009
“Kita Juga Ikut Memilih lho” (We also give votes), an article published in daily Jawa Pos Newspaper, April 2009
“Pernikahanku” (My Marriage), a short story (cerita pendek) published in Swara Rahima Magazine, December, 2009
“Religious Studies in Islamic Institutes,” Aslam Sa’ad and Nihayatul Wafiroh, an article in Opinion, The Jakarta Post Newspaper, November, 13, 2009
“Kemiskinan dan Perjodohan,” suplemen 13, Swara Rahima magazine, No 32, 2010
“Membangun Kesadaran akan Seksualitas dan Gender di Pesantren dan Kalangan Pendidik” Rahima.or.id, Friday June 17, 2011.
“Perempuan Pendobrak dari Indonesia Timur,” Flamma magazine edisi 35, September 2012, IRE, Yogyakarta
“Kenapa Perempuan Harus Memiliki Pendidikan Bagus ?” Swara Rahima magazine edisi 39, September 2012.
“Sexual Abuse May Occur Even in Holy Places.” Nihayatul Wafiroh, an article in Opinion. The Jakarta Post Newspaper, January 18, 2013.
“Untukmu Perempuan-perempuanku,” in the book with the title “Seksualitas, Gender, Kesehatan Reproduksi: Refleksi, Inspirasi, Perjuangan, Pemberdayaan.” Nihayatul Wafiroh, published by Mitra INTI Foundation.
“Kenalkan Indonesia di Seluruh Dunia,” an article in Newspaper, Radar Banyuwangi, Jawa Pos. September 18, 2013
“Siapapun Boleh Membaca di Boston Public Library,” an article in Newspaper, Radar Banyuwangi, Jawa Pos, October 23, 2013.
Penghargaan
Grant for undergraduate thesis research awarded by Pusat Studi Wanita (Center for Women’s Studies) IAIN Sunan Kalijaga.
Grant for undergraduate thesis research by Indonesian Bank (Bank Indonesia) 2003-2004
Master Degree from International Fellowship Program (IFP) Ford Foundation 2006-2009
Travel Award for research from Starr Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Asian Studies 2007, at University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii USA.
The best paper for masters student in Southeast Asia area in 20th Annual Graduate Student Conference School of Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, March 2009
