[2] The proprietor of a small tailoring business in Duxbury, Massachusetts, she served as president of the town's Rotary Club.
[3][4] After September 11, 2001, Jan rallied her New England community to send over 400 homemade blankets to rescue workers at Ground Zero.
[10][11] In 2017, she opened the Razia Jan Institute for Medical Sciences, which was a free two-year midwifery certification college.
[12] Jan is the subject of a children's picture book biography, Razia's Ray of Hope: One Girl's Dream of an Education, written by Elizabeth Suneby and illustrated by Suana Verelst, published by Kids Can Press in 2013.
[17] Razia's Ray of Hope was a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Honor Title in 2014.