Nestor Ugale was born and raised in Lahaina Maui. Since the fires in August 2023 Nestor founded and is President of the nonprofit Kaibigan ng Lahaina (which means “Friends of Lahaina” in Tagalog). Their focus is the long term recovery of the Filipino community that has resided in Lahaina for more than 4 generations. Nestor is a graduate of Lahainaluna and jokingly says he is known as the schools smallest center in the history of their football team. You can often find Nestor entertaining with his ‘ukulele at venues across the island. One of the dishes he is making is Tortang Talong, It was his mom’s way of getting him to eat vegetables, for a long time he says he thought that it was the only way to prepare it because egg is part of the word eggplant, right?!