• Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist group
• Shot and killed a school superintendent in 1973 
• Was killed in a shootout with police in 1974

Born in September 1947 to upper middle class parents in San Francisco, Nancy “Fahizah” Ling Perry was a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a domestic terrorist group of the 1970s. 

Perry grew up in a conservative “Goldwater” family and first attended Whittier College, but transferred in 1967 to the University of California-Berkeley, where she became part of the radical campus culture and married Gilbert Perry, an African American jazz musician. Graduating with a degree in English, she later became involved with a prisoner-education movement through which she met Vacaville inmate Donald DeFreeze and other founding members of the SLA.

Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped and indoctrinated into the SLA in 1974, later testified that Perry was one of two people who shot Oakland (California) Schools Superintendent Marcus Foster in 1973.

Perry was killed in a shootout with police in Los Angeles on May 17, 1974, along with five other members of the SLA, including DeFreeze.