Meital holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Tel Aviv University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics at Yale University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the International Sustainable Fashion Consumption Research Network.

Meital has spent more than a decade researching the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of the fashion industry. Her work examines secondhand clothing markets, fashion consumption patterns, sustainability regulation, and the global trade of used clothing. Her research has been featured in leading academic journals and media outlets including Vogue, the BBC, and The Wall Street Journal.

Meital brings a research-driven perspective on the gap between sustainability narratives and actual consumer behavior. Her work challenges common assumptions about secondhand fashion, consumption, and sustainability, helping organizations better understand how people engage with sustainable alternatives in practice rather than in theory.