Desiree Hanford is a professor and director of academic integrity and appeals at Medill. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses that include news reporting and business and money reporting. She is the co-faculty adviser for the Northwestern Business Review. In addition, Hanford is immediate past president for the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW). Desiree was an equities reporter for Dow Jones & Co. for more than 10 years, where she predominantly covered publicly traded companies and mutual funds.