Fulbright Contacts at UC San Diego
The Fulbright Program is a collaborative effort at UC San Diego. Multiple staff members and campus offices support the domestic and international cohorts at different parts of the Fulbright award cycle.
Meet Jay Minert, UC San Diego's
Fulbright Student Advisor
Jay Minert has served as Director of Outreach and Academic Engagement for Study Abroad UC San Diego since 2012, where he has promoted and increased access to global academic opportunities for students of all backgrounds and majors.
Jay earned his bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology at The Evergreen State College and his master’s degree in education at UC Santa Cruz. Before coming to UC San Diego, Jay served as an Academic Advisor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, a Student Affairs practitioner at UC Santa Cruz, a Peace Corps Recruiter in Seattle, and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize, Central America (with extended service in Palau, Micronesia).
Jay is the recipient of two Fulbright International Education Administrators (IEA) awards, one to France in 2023 and the other to the United Kingdom in 2013. He received a UC San Diego Student Advocate Award in 2023, and in 2018 was named as a LEAD Fellow (Leader for Equity Advancement and Diversity) through the Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Jay served as an Academic Consortium Board member for CIEE from 2019 to 2023, and has presented at professional conferences including NAFSA, The Forum, CIEE, and Diversity Abroad.
If you are interested in pursuing a Fulbright U.S. Student Award, you may contact Jay directly at jminert@ucsd.edu
Meet Max Reinke, UC San Diego's
Fulbright Scholar Liaison
Max Reinke is the International Agreements & Communications Analyst for Global Initiatives. In his current role, he drafts and executes international partnerships for General Campus and develops marketing and communications strategies.
Max started at UC San Diego in 2019. Previously, he worked for the Australian public service in the fields of immigration, ministerial visits, and in the program and events office for the Premier of New South Wales. Max is a native of Morgantown, West Virginia, but lived in Washington, D.C. Santiago, Chile and Sydney, Australia prior to making San Diego his home. Max is a true product of international education; he studied abroad in Spain, Sweden and Estonia while pursuing his B.A. in Geography at West Virginia University. In 2013, he completed a transatlantic dual M.A. degree program that awarded him master's degrees in History and International Relations from West Virginia University and Collegium Civitas in Warsaw, Poland. He speaks English and Spanish and is currently learning Italian.
If you are a UC San Diego faculty member, lecturer, researcher or staff interested in a Fulbright Scholar Award or you are from an international institution and wish to come to UC San Diego as a Fulbright Scholar, you may contact Max directly at mreinke@ucsd.edu.