Saxe describes herself as a "lifelong radical activist, intersectional in outlook since back in the day when we just expressed it as the idea that “everything is connected.”"[3] A student at Brandeis University, Saxe was one of several young radicals who were placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list in the early 1970s.

[4] Along with Katherine Ann Power, Stanley Ray Bond, and ex-convicts William Gilday and Robert Valeri, she escaped from a bank robbery in Brighton, Boston, in which accomplice Gilday shot and killed Boston Police Department officer Walter Schroeder.

She and her four accomplices broke into a National Guard Armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on Sept. 20, 1970, and stole a pickup truck, blasting caps and 400 rounds of .30-caliber ammunition.

Saxe was on the run until 1975 when she was arrested in Philadelphia,[5] after a police officer recognized her from a photo distributed by the FBI the same day.

[7] She is the sister-in-law of Hollywood screenwriter Josh Olson, and has appeared on his podcast series The West Wing Thing.