The humanitarian system is contracting, siloed sectoral programming by default is under scrutiny, and the organizations that will define the next decade of protection practice are those that can ground a social work systems approach in feminist practice, building connective tissue with child protection, rule of law, and case management bridge prevention and response as two expressions of a single protective logic, and take seriously the financing of services for those most at risk of violence as a structural condition of impact rather than a donor-cycle variable. Someone who has seen what survivor-centered, feminist, rights-based programming can do at its best, and who is equally clear-eyed about the ways the sector has sometimes missed opportunities, been left out of innovations that social services in other contexts have leveraged for better impact and scale, and built protection frameworks that keep women safe in the short term while leaving the structural conditions of violence entirely intact.