Simplify the following text for a Grade 9 native English-speaking person.
Original: She first became involved in the Women 's Liberation Movement in New York City in 1968 , by joining a consciousness-raising group in the newly-formed New York Radical Women organization .
Simplified: She first became involved in the Women 's Liberation Movement in New York City in 1968 . There she joined a consciousness-raising group in the newly-formed New York Radical Women organization .