Roanna Canete

Roanna Canete: After growing up on an extremely remote cattle ranch, Roanna’s dream was to see the world. Once she had the chance, she spent much of her adult life traveling and living internationally. She holds a Master’s degree in Global Leadership as well as an MBA in Entrepreneurship, has served as a leadership consultant, and has taught at the graduate level.

When her toddler son was diagnosed with multiple food allergies, she began to notice the difficulties of finding good tasting food for him. While living in Italy, she studied cooking, baking, chocolate making, and gelato from a culture that places the highest value on food quality, freshness, taste, and appearance. After opening The Gluten Free Baking Company in 2015, she went on to found The Gluten Free Culinary School in 2022, with her friend Annabel Cohen.

Roanna keenly understands the unique challenges associated with food allergies and has blended her love of baking with her desire to help reshape the food industry. Through The Gluten Free Culinary School, her goal is to train gluten free pastry chefs create a new world of delicious foods that help create eateries that are safe places for allergen diners.

Roanna currently makes her home in San Diego, CA with her family.