Betty Bumpers is the Co-founder and Vice President of Every Child By Two along with former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.  Betty Bumpers is the wife of Senator Dale Bumpers (retired), a mother of three children, and a former art teacher. Bumpers received her education at Iowa State University, the University of Arkansas, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.

During her husband's tenure as Governor of Arkansas, Betty Bumpers was the leader of a successful statewide immunization program for children, which was later used by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention as a national model for other states.  During the presidency of Jimmy Carter, she worked with First Lady Rosalynn Carter to implement immunization programs state-by-state.  She and Rosalynn Carter have been credited with the passage of laws mandating vaccination at school entry, which now exist in every state.  As a result of these laws, the United States has a 95% plus immunization rate for school enrollees.  Realizing the need to immunize our pre-school age children and the need to increase the immunization rates for our nation's un-insured, under-insured and un-documented children, they have continued their efforts through the Every Child By Two Program.

Betty Bumpers has served on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, the National League for Nursing Board, the All Kids Count Advisory Board, and the Family Place Project Advisory Committee for Libraries for Our Future.

In commemoration of the vigilant advocacy of both Betty Bumpers and her husband, former Senator Dale Bumpers the National Institutes for Health recently named their new vaccine research center after the Bumpers.  The Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center will be a joint venture of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and will incorporate a core of NIH scientists with expertise in immunology, virology and HIV research.

In addition to her vigilant efforts to eliminate preventable diseases in our children, Betty Bumpers dedicated herself to Peace Links, an international women's peace education group that she founded in 1981. Peace Link was a major force in ending the Nuclear Arms race and although they officially disbanded in 2001, they have active members in all fifty states who continue to work towards attaining peace within our communities by taking part in discussions with women and children throughout the world who strive to create a better place for our children to live.
 

Betty Bumpers remains actively engaged in the Every Child By Two program, visiting states in need of advocacy efforts and promoting the continued education of young parents about the ravages of vaccine-preventable diseases.