Meet the Bureau Chiefs

— -- Nathan Bense, bureau chief, is a senior at Syracuse University majoring in broadcast journalism, policy studies, and history. He returned to Syracuse after having spent his spring 2009 semester in London.

A native of Rochester, N.Y., Bense has a strong interest in the issues that plague the midsized cities of upstate New York. As an active member of the community at home and at school, Bense loves meeting new people and hearing their stories. He is excited about how new technology allows stories to be told in ways that better engage the audience.

Ever since he was little, Bense has loved the news. Whenever a fire truck passed, he wanted to know what happened and who was affected. In high school, Nathan served as an editor-in-chief of the student newspaper. While at Syracuse, he has reported for a variety of campus media, including Citrus TV News, WAER public radio, and CONNECT, a student produced public affairs program airing on the Syracuse ABC affiliate WSYR. In the past two years, Nathan has interned in the newsrooms of WROC-TV (CBS) and WHAM-TV (ABC) in Rochester. He also was a marketing intern at Home HeadQuarters, Inc., a non-profit in Syracuse.

When not checking the latest news updates, Bense can often be found taking pictures, going for a walk, or reading a book.

View pictures and profiles of the entire Syracuse University ABC News on Campus staff HERE.

Maxine Park is a senior at Arizona State University, majoring in broadcast journalism and minoring in English literature. She was born in New York and later moved to Arizona. Park always had a passion for writing and realized in high school that she wanted to pursue journalism. She worked her way up from staff reporter to editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper. It was her love for journalism and storytelling that led her to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Park began interning as a freshman at KNXV-TV (ABC 15) in Phoenix in 2007. This led to other internships at KPHO-TV (CBS 5) and KTVK-TV (3TV). She also took part in the Multimedia Reporting Project at The Arizona Republic, the major newspaper in the state, where she wrote breaking news for azcentral.com.

Park's work ethic and dedication to her craft have helped her strive for excellence in everything she does. She is currently working on a documentary as part of her thesis for the Barrett Honors College at ASU. In her spare time, she enjoys writing poetry, traveling, spending time with family and friends, and playing with her two dogs, Sulley and Bailey.

View pictures and profiles of the entire Arizona State University ABC News on Campus staff HERE.

Brittny Krause is a senior at the University of Florida pursuing a bachelor's degree in telecommunications news. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., but a Florida girl at heart, Krause has always had a passion for the television business.

Besides working for ABC News On Campus, Krause reports and anchors for the on campus television station, WUFT-TV. She also reports, anchors and produces for the on-campus radio station WRUF-AM, where her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists and the Florida Associated Press.

Aside from news, Krause is a sports fan and an active student reporter for ESPN-U Campus Connection. Krause loves watching Regis and Kelly and Sportscenter. In her free time, she likes spending time with family, working out and cheering on her favorite team, the Florida Gators.

View pictures and profiles of the entire University of Florida ABC News on Campus staff HERE.

Emily Ingram hails from rural Nebraska, a land of dirt roads, county fairs and family farms. Now a senior news-editorial and advertising major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ingram has worked for print, Web and broadcast news outlets over the past four years.

Her summers have included copy editing internships at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and she spent a year and a half as a copy editing and design intern at the Lincoln Journal Star. When not at internships, Ingram worked her way up at the Daily Nebraskan, UNL's independent student newspaper; she just wrapped up a yearlong stint as Web director.

Ingram also has served as online manager for Redwire, a publication of UNL's journalism college, and hosted newscasts for KRNU, the campus radio station. Ingram is active in the American Copy Editors Society, serving as president of UNL's chapter. This spring, UWIRE named her among the top 100 student journalists in the nation.

View pictures and profiles of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ABC News on Campus staff HERE.

Xorje Olivares is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, double majoring in broadcast journalism and Mexican-American studies.

For the past two years, he has worked at KVR News 9, UT's award-winning, student-produced news broadcast. This year, he served as the associate producer, and will assume the executive producer position for the upcoming year. He is also the news director for 91.7 KVRX Austin, the campus radio station.

He hosted the news talk show "In the Know," and also worked with NPR's Latino USA, which is produced in Austin, Texas. Two of his segments aired on stations throughout the country. After graduation, he plans to pursue a career in urban affairs reporting, hopefully for a news magazine.

View pictures and profiles of the University of Texas-Austin ABC News on Campus staff HERE.

Lauren McGaha is a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to reporting for ABC News on Campus, she has spent two years working with "Carolina Week," UNC's award-winning student television news broadcast. Currently, she contributes to the program as a director and reporter.

View pictures and profiles of the University of North Carolina ABC News on Campus staff HERE.