Dr. Gwendolyn Stewart is Director & Managing Editor and Chief Photographer at Picture Politics, combining a Harvard Ph.D. in Political Science with a wide-ranging career as a photographer and photojournalist. Her experiences in the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation go back to 1984, to her first, seven-week, tour of multiple regions of the country (several of them now independent countries), through the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1990, through the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Medvedev, and then again Vladimir Putin, observed and photographed in multiple trips to the Russian Federation and attendance at bilateral and multilateral summits such as the G-8 and APEC in which those presidents have participated. The People's Republic of China is her other main focus, and her experiences in that country and in that political realm are similarly extensive. She is currently working on Memoirs of a Junior Occupationaire, a distinctly different approach to the long history of the Cold War which she hopes will both illuminate the past and suggest lessons for the future.