Jia Yi Gu served as a juror for the Architecture & Design panel of the USA Fellowship review process for the 2025 awardee cycle. In this role, she joined fellow panelists Germane Barnes and Travieso to evaluate nominations from across the United States. The USA Fellowship is a national award that recognizes artists and cultural practitioners across disciplines—including Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art, and Writing—and provides $50,000 in unrestricted funding along with professional support services. Fellows are nominated by a network of arts professionals and selected through peer-review panels, supporting artists at all career stages whose work contributes meaningfully to the cultural landscape of the United States.